[License-discuss] CPAL 1.0 License | Badge-ware | Clarification

[McCoy Smith]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Fontana <rfontana at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 9:32 AM
> To: mccoy at lexpan.law; license-discuss at lists.opensource.org
> Cc: henrik.ingo at avoinelama.fi
> Subject: Re: [License-discuss] CPAL 1.0 License | Badge-ware | Clarification
> 
> I wouldn't consider 4-clause BSD to be badgeware. Badgeware, to me, refers
> to a license that requires display of some sort of sufficiently-annoying
> branding or graphical attribution in the user interface of the software.
> 
> FSF has recognized some arguably-badgeware licenses as free software
> licenses, such as CPAL.
> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#CPAL

Yes, I probably should have said badgeware-ish wrt BSD-4.  It's just that they are a bit more specific on the problems in BSD-4's "attribution" requirements than they are on CPAL.