Discussion: ADPL

[Forrest J. Cavalier III]

  (a) Except as required by the
  Acknowledgement section below, this license does not grant any rights
  to use the trademark "ArsDigita," the ArsDigita logo or the terms
  "ArsDigita Community System,""ACS," or "ArsDigita Corporation," even
  if such marks are included in the Original Code.

Doesn't that say I must not redistribute the Original Code unless I
remove the marks?  


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Is it possible to receive trademark registration for three letters 
"ACS" ?  If not, then the license should not be trying to restrict it.

If protecting names is important, is there a reason that the wording
similar to the Apache license was not adequate?

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  info at arsdigita.com.</ul> II.  <strong>Acknowledgement</strong> <ul>All
  advertising or promotional materials, download pages, documentation,
  and/or physical media mentioning features or use of this software, and
  any redistributions in whatever form, must display the following
  acknoledgement in a reasonably prominent location: "This product
  includes software developed by ArsDigita Corporation for use in the
  ArsDigita Community System (ACS) (<a
  href=http://www.arsdigita.com/acs/>http://www.arsdigita.com/acs/</a>).
  "</ul>

That takes the advertising clause a couple of steps too far.  
Physical media?!  Does the notice really have to be printed on a 
3.5" diskette, (not the label mind you, but the actual diskette!?)
What about a hard drive?!

The notice will take up an unreasonable amount of space, even on a CD.

The notice has to be on every single page of (printed) documentation
too?!  

What if I tell someone in email about how to use the program? Isn't
that documentation?

What if I write a message to license-discuss about the license?  (Isn't
this message mentioning use of the software?)  Make sure you
add their notice to this message before you store it.

UCB removed the advertising clause from the original BSD
license.  (I question if there are ever valid reasons for
an "advertising clause") But if there are, why wasn't the
more accepted wording from the original BSD used?  What
is it they are worried about?

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I noticed at least one spelling mistake.
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