[License-discuss] Does the LinShare "attribution" notice violate OSD?

[Simon Phipps]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 9:21 PM Stefano Zacchiroli <zack at opensource.org>
wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 11:41:06AM -0700, McCoy Smith wrote:
> > Seems like it might violate the definition of appropriate legal notice
> in GPLv3.
>
> ... hence, one should be able to just remove these de facto "further
> restrictions", as per:
>
>   > All other non-permissive additional terms are considered "further
>   > restrictions" within the meaning of section 10. If the Program as
>   > you received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that
>   > it is governed by this License along with a term that is a further
>   > restriction, you may remove that term.
>
> Right?
>

A recent court case in the US suggests that if Linaro owns all the
copyrights it would be unwise to rely on that without further precedent or
reliable defence.

Simon
(in a personal capacity)
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