Re: What is "reasonable" [LWN.net]

Re: What is "reasonable"

Posted Dec 1, 2006 23:32 UTC (Fri) by ldo (subscriber, #40946)
In reply to: What is "reasonable" by jstAusr
Parent article: What is open source?

>Yes but, doesn't it become unreasonable when the combination of all the
>sofware that should be attributed each wants an individual space for
>their logo? If this was to be considered acceptable everyone would want
>their fair share of the space.

This is exactly right. One of Richard Stallman's requirements for a Free Software licence is that it must be compatible with itself. That is, you should be able to take code from two different pieces of software, both covered by the same licence (or suitably minor variations thereof) and combine them. He uses the T_EX licence as an example of one that isn't compatible with itself--it doesn't let you do this. Insistence on including everybody's logos will sooner or later lead to a similar problem.

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