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

[Simon Phipps]

The Neo4J case, not one involving Linagora (yet) - they are just the
company behind Linshare.

Oh, I realise I said Linaro earlier - sorry! I meant Linagora.

S.
(in a personal capacity)

On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 10:25 PM McCoy Smith <mccoy at lexpan.law> wrote:

> OK I’ll bite: which case are you referring to?
> I’m not seeing anything from Linaro on PACER.
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> *Subject:* Re: [License-discuss] Does the LinShare "attribution" notice
> violate OSD?
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> On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 9:21 PM Stefano Zacchiroli <zack at opensource.org>
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> 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.
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> ... hence, one should be able to just remove these de facto "further
> restrictions", as per:
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>   > 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.
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> Right?
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> 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.
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> Simon
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