[lug] Licenses: Apache vs. GPL

Evelyn Mitchell efm at tummy.com
Thu Jan 17 08:38:54 MST 2002


On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 08:15:24AM -0700, Scott A. Herod wrote:
> 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/)."

Advertising clauses are disliked by the FSF for aesthetic reasons.
Every organization that contributes under a BSD-style license
adds a sentence which must be displayed at some point.

http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/bsd.html

IANAL,
Evelyn Mitchell
efm at tummy.com



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