[License-review] Approval request for ZENTAO PUBLIC LICENSE

[Matthias Merkel]

You're right. I use that, too and have no problems with people who are doing that cause that can't cause problems by for example switching from gui to a command line software.

---- On Do, 23 Jun 2016 21:51:27 +0200 mccoy.smith at intel.com wrote ----

I stand corrected. 
Yes, requiring preservation in notices in things other than the software isn't a restriction on the modification of the software itself. So that isn't a OSD 3 or 4 issue. 

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On 6/23/2016 1:42 PM, Smith, McCoy wrote: 
> Just out of curiosity, was 4-clause BSD (aka BSD with advertising clause) ever on the OSI list? It seems that 3-clause came about (and 4-clause "rescinded") around the time that OSI was created. If 4-clause BSD were on the OSI list, that'd be another OSI-approved "badgeware" license (according to my understanding of that term). 
Echoing Tom on the pedantry, I wouldn't consider the 4-clause BSD a "badgeware" license. While It requires use of the organization's name in advertising, it doesn't put any restrictions or use, or absence of use, in the software itself. 

Pam 

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