<div><div dir="auto">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. </div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">D</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 11:08 PM <Simon.Cox@csiro.au> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal">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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<p class="MsoNormal">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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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#00a9ce">Simon J D Cox
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Research Scientist -
<a href="https://research.csiro.au/ei" target="_blank">Environmental Informatics</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Team Leader – Environmental Information Infrastructure</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Minion Pro";color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><a href="http://www.csiro.au/Research/LWF" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">CSIRO Land and Water</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#00a9ce">E</span></b><span lang="IT" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><a href="mailto:simon.cox@csiro.au" target="_blank"><span lang="IT">simon.cox@csiro.au</span></a>
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</span><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Mail:</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> Private Bag 10, Clayton South, Vic 3169</span><span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">   Visit:
</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Central Reception,<i>
</i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#17161a">Research Way, Clayton, Vic 3168 
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212529;background:white"><a href="https://w3w.co/honey.zebra.chip" target="_blank">///honey.zebra.chip</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#17161a"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">   Deliver:
</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#17161a">Gate 3, Normanby Road, Clayton, Vic 3168<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><a href="http://people.csiro.au/Simon-Cox" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">people.csiro.au/Simon-Cox</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3884-3420" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">orcid.org/0000-0002-3884-3420</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Simon_Cox3" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">researchgate.net/profile/Simon_Cox3</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://github.com/dr-shorthair" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">github.com/dr-shorthair</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><a href="http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/agents/Simon%20Cox" target="_blank">lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/agents/Simon%20Cox</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Twitter
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