>>>>> "Antti-Juhani" == Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Antti-Juhani> On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 03:06:07PM +0100, Marko Schuetz wrote:
This was part of the quoted LICENSE file:
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>> For those who do not like to read legalese this is a standard
>> BSD license.
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Antti-Juhani> No it is not. The standard BSD license includes an evil
Antti-Juhani> advertising clause. This one is thus better.
The BSD license used to contain an advertising clause. The following
is a quote from an article at http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html
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Dean Hal Varian at the University of California took up the cause, and
championed it with the administration. In June 1999, after two years
of discussions, the University of California removed this clause from
the license of BSD.
Thus, there is now a new BSD license which does not contain the
advertising clause. Unfortunately, this does not eliminate the legacy
of the advertising clause: similar clauses are still present in the
licenses of many packages which are not part of BSD. The change in
license for BSD has no effect on the other packages which imitated the
old BSD license; only the developers who made them can change them.
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Marko
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