File diff 85bbbf1ec649 → 7286fe56bb36
gpl-lgpl.tex
Show inline comments
...
 
@@ -3566,13 +3566,18 @@ requirements hat GPLv3 are as follows:
 
  advertising rights).  The third clause of the
 
  \href{http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause}{3-Clause BSD
 
  License}, for example, long considered de-facto compatible with GPLv2
 
    anyway, is via this clause unequivocally compatible with GPLv3.  However,
 
    \href{https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OriginalBSD}{this
 
      clause \textit{does not} make GPL compatible with the old BSD
 
      advertising clause} that the FSF
 
    \href{https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html}{long ago identified as
 
      problematic}.
 
 
 
  anyway, is via this clause unequivocally compatible with GPLv3.  However,
 
  \href{https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OriginalBSD}{this
 
  clause \textit{does not} make GPL compatible with the old BSD
 
  advertising clause} that the FSF
 
  \href{https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html}{long ago identified as
 
  problematic}.  BSD removed this clause from it's license in 1999; but
 
  licenses retaining an analagous clause are still prevalent today, notably
 
  the \href{https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OpenSSL}{OpenSSL
 
  License} of the widely-used OpenSSL library.  For this reason,
 
  section \ref{bsd4clause-openssl} of this guide is devoted entirely
 
  to that particular conflict.
 

	
 
\item This provision clarifies that refusal to grant trademark rights for a
 
  GPLv3'd covered work remains compatible with GPLv3.  Again, some
 
  non-copyleft permissive licenses include such clauses.