Re: artwork in extensions licensed with GPL/LGPL/MPL

Gervase Markham <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:11:08 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.license
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 07/08/09 15:45, Adam Kowalewski wrote:
> Koala_artwork_license.txt – text of the 3-clause BSD license with
> modified point 3:
> All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this artwork
> must display the following acknowledgement: “This product includes
> artwork created by Lidiya Ivanova.”

No. This type of clause is known as the "BSD advertising clause" and is 
incompatible with the GPL.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html
So you cannot have code covered with it in a tri-licensed extension.

Gerv
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