Re: A radical approach to rewriting the DFSG
Glenn Maynard wrote:
> As a brief observation unrelated to this subthread: this also implicitly
> deals with the GPL#8 problem, by not requiring any special casing for
> the GPL at all.
>
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 12:00:03AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
>> I'd like to append something like the following:
>>
>> The license may not place further constraints on the naming or
>> labelling of the derivative work. This includes specifying the form of
>> such notices, or the manner in which derivative works must be named.
>
> /usr/share/doc/apache/copyright
>
> 5. Products derived from this software may not be called "Apache",
> nor may "Apache" appear in their name, without prior written
> permission of the Apache Software Foundation.
>
> I think that this is something that shouldn't have been allowed, but has
> since become extremely widespread, and it probably wouldn't be productive
> to start rejecting it--it's a problem, but a relatively minor one.
It's been allowed mostly because they don't really enforce it. For
instance, Debian's modified version of Apache, which is a derived work, has
"apache" in its name. Furthermore, they've stated that they don't intend
to enforce it strictly, and it's not present in the new license.
I certainly wouldn't accept this clause in a license without additional
assurances from the copyright holder. We said as much to X-Oz.
>> > N. Acknowledgements in documentation
>>
>> > The license for a free program may require that end-user
>> > documentation which accompanies the program contains a short
>> > acknowledgement that credits the author.
>>
>> That's horrible. This could mean that we have to include the blasted
>> things in the release notes. Survey of licenses and a tighter
>> restriction before we write this one in, please. I'm not sufficiently
>> familiar with such clauses to be able to pull one out of the air.
>
> /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.
They normally appear in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright, in Debian. :-) Does
that make a difference? I think this is a "loose" clause.
>
> (I only realized recently how horrible this license is.)
>
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