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<body><div>> Therefore should say on all interface screens<br></div>
<div>> "Foo, a project by Google" or, if a fork: "Bar, a<br></div>
<div>> fork of the Google project Foo" with a link back<br></div>
<div>> to its github repo.<br></div>
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<div>This requirement is just too asymmetric. What about<br></div>
<div>credit to the database glue you use? What about the <br></div>
<div>language? What about the other free software library <br></div>
<div>you use? I believe it is unfair to shuffle those projects <br></div>
<div>under the carpet even if they don't have such a <br></div>
<div>requirement. Your license should be designed such <br></div>
<div>that you'd be very happy if everyone used the provision <br></div>
<div>you propose, and in particular, that your work would <br></div>
<div>comply with respect to others' work.</div>
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<div>I do think that there's room for an otherwise permissive <br></div>
<div>license to require reasonable acknowledgement in a<br></div>
<div>manner compatible with GPLv3. It would require that any <br></div>
<div>derived work with an interactive interface have a prominent <br></div>
<div>way to display copyrights & other legal notices. Then,<br></div>
<div>it'd require that your software project be mentioned in <br></div>
<div>those notices, in a manner commensurate with other <br></div>
<div>components of the whole work.<br></div>
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<div>There are two parts to this. First is community acceptance: <br></div>
<div>finding wording that is reasonably clear, effective, yet short<br></div>
<div> enough to satisfy those who are interested in a "permissive"<br></div>
<div>license isn't an easy task. Second, and perhaps more<br></div>
<div> importantly, compliance must be quite trivial -- this requires <br></div>
<div>somesort of registry with just about every commonly used <br></div>
<div>open source work included, as well as a convenient<br></div>
<div>mechanism to use this registry to build a compliant <br></div>
<div>legal notice and acknowledgement visual display.<br></div>
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<div>So, the outcome of this would be some sort of visual<br></div>
<div>menu that can be easily accessed, where your work<br></div>
<div>would be one of dozens. I do hope to engage in a <br></div>
<div>project like this when I have some time and can find <br></div>
<div>collaborators who agree on an sensible vision.<br></div>
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<div>Best,<br></div>
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<div>Clark<br></div>
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