Juanjo Alvarez Wrote: > On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:53:33 +0200, Don <nos...@nospam.com> wrote: > > No, but you have to include the license WITH the executable (in the > > 'documentation and other materials'). Which is fine if in fact > there are > > 'documentation and other materials'. But it would seem to prohibit > > distribution of a bare executable. > > You can include it in the about box, in the --help switch, etc. Many > programs do it that way and I never heard of any problem with that.
A valid corner case example was given here: a hello world application. A minimal hello world application is "Hello world!" + the bytes used to make the syscall. The license text would bloat the executable horribly. Thus, BSD isn't suitable for *all* commercial application development. QED
