Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing licenses/BSD

2007-01-14 Thread Petteri Räty 
Roy Marples wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 20:44:24 +0200
> Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> Anyone oppose the attached patch for making the BSD license more
>> readable? I just came across this way for writing it in one package
>> and think it would be easier to understand this way.
> 
> Looks good to me. Makes it look more like the one found at
> http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/license.html
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Roy
> 

Committed.

Regards,
Petteri
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing licenses/BSD

2007-01-14 Thread Roy Marples 
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 20:44:24 +0200
Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Anyone oppose the attached patch for making the BSD license more
> readable? I just came across this way for writing it in one package
> and think it would be easier to understand this way.

Looks good to me. Makes it look more like the one found at
http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/license.html

Thanks

Roy

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing licenses/BSD

2007-01-14 Thread Kevin F. Quinn 
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 20:44:24 +0200
Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Anyone oppose the attached patch for making the BSD license more
> readable? I just came across this way for writing it in one package
> and think it would be easier to understand this way.

Surely the best thing would be to make it identical to the template at
opensource.org: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php

This means just removing the redundant '*'s from the continuation lines.

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[gentoo-dev] Changing licenses/BSD

2007-01-13 Thread Petteri Räty 
Anyone oppose the attached patch for making the BSD license more
readable? I just came across this way for writing it in one package and
think it would be easier to understand this way.

Regards,
Petteri
Index: BSD
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RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/licenses/BSD,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 BSD
--- BSD 11 Aug 2002 23:27:44 -  1.3
+++ BSD 13 Jan 2007 18:43:22 -
@@ -4,14 +4,14 @@
 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
 
-* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
-* this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
-* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
-* notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
-* documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-* 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.
+1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
+   this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+   notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
+   documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+3. 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.
 
 THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS"
 AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE