In a standard BSD license, the endorsement clause looks like:
Neither the name of the nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
In this library it is:
It is illegal to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission from Daniel Shawul.
I read BSD to mean I cannot use the project name to promote my own stuff. I can't say "Joel's Chess Engine, powered by Scorpion so you know it's good!"
I read the license on this library to say that I can't promote a derived product at all though, even if I'm not making reference to the original library. I can't say "Joel's Chess Engine is great!"
This seems like an incredibly restrictive license, and I wanted to clarify that that was the intent since it looks so close to a standard BSD license.
In a standard BSD license, the endorsement clause looks like:
In this library it is:
I read BSD to mean I cannot use the project name to promote my own stuff. I can't say "Joel's Chess Engine, powered by Scorpion so you know it's good!"
I read the license on this library to say that I can't promote a derived product at all though, even if I'm not making reference to the original library. I can't say "Joel's Chess Engine is great!"
This seems like an incredibly restrictive license, and I wanted to clarify that that was the intent since it looks so close to a standard BSD license.