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Re: A radical approach to rewriting the DFSG#



On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 02:33:32PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 10:52:22AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > > /usr/share/doc/apache/copyright
> > > 
> > > 3. The end-user documentation included with the redistribution,
> > >    if any, must include the following acknowledgment:
> > >       "This product includes software developed by the
> > >        Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/)."
> > >    Alternately, this acknowledgment may appear in the software itself,
> > >    if and wherever such third-party acknowledgments normally appear.
> > 
> > We're invoking the second part of this across the board. The first one
> > alone would not be free; fortunately it is a disjunction, allowing us
> > to ignore the first part.
> 
> The second part ("Alternately ...") makes it easier for Debian, but doesn't
> make it more free.  Lots of software runs on hardware without the capability
> to display text (eg. embedded use), and their only choice is the first option.

I would interpret "wherever such third-party acknowledgements normally
appear" to mean /usr/share/doc/apache/copyright or similar - stuff the
thing in the binary package in a suitable file, and you're done.

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