Re: Draft new DFSG - r1.4

[Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>]

Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote (amongst other things):
>
>PACKAGE MAINTAINERS: please check your licences to see if there are
>harmless restrictions in your packages that need to be added to
>section 3.
>
>(3.i) Advertising restriction (deprecated)
>
>The licence may require advertising materials which mention features
>or use of the work to contain a short notice specified by the
>software.
>
>This exception is only available if the restriction was imposed no
>later than the 1st of January 1999, and if no modified version of the
>work has been published since then by anyone who could remove the
>restriction.

I think the major application that this will affect is Apache -- the
Apache Group has control of the licence. I don't know if anyone has
brought this up with them...

Tony.
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