[License-discuss] Open source license with obligation to display an attribution?

[Danese Cooper]

Yes. We created one back in 2002, in response to SugarCRM decision to
impose a ridiculous requirement that their attribution be permanently
displayed in the center of any page using derivatives of their code. We
felt that the persistence of the display in their requirement was an
obvious attempt to halt reuse of their code, which is counter to the spirit
of the OSD. But we did decide that a brief attribution might be a desirable
gesture in some cases. The resulting OSI-approved (though seldom-used)
license is called the Attribution Assurance License.

D

On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 11:08 PM <Simon.Cox at csiro.au> wrote:

> Is there an open source license that also includes an obligation on the
> user to make public attribution of use of the software in a specific form?
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> What I have in mind is for software that is used to drive a web-site,
> where we just want to request that a logo with the words “Powered by ACME
> technology” is displayed on the website.
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