Obsolete license terms at the FreeBSD website (Re:[FreeBSD-users-jp 75962])

[IIJIMA Hiromitsu]

Dear all:

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This is an information from a thread that starts with [FreeBSD-users-jp 75962].

http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/ and http://www.freebsd.org/ja/copyright/
introduce some copyright and legal issues concerning FreeBSD, but it seems
that some of them are obsolete.


1. About GNU LGPL:

GNU Library GPL (LGPL) was renamed to GNU *Lesser* GPL (also abbreviated
as LGPL), with the reason described at
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html.

The page above claims that ordinary GPL, not LGPL, should be applied for
certain libraries while some libraries should remain in LGPL.

I think that at least the page
http://www.freebsd.org/(ja/)copyright/COPYING.LIB
should be replaced by the latest Lesser GPL 2.1.


2. About 4.4BSD Copyright Terms:

In the 4.4BSD copyright terms in
http://www.freebsd.org/(ja/)copyright/license.html, the clause
| 3.All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
|   must display the following acknowledgement: 
|
|      This product includes software developed by the University of
|      California, Berkeley and its contributors. 
was 'deleted in its entirety' in 1999, by the Director of Office of Tech-
nology Licensing at UCB.
cf. http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php

I think that the fact that this clause was deleted should be noted as
editors' note, with original text kept original, to show the historical
change.

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(Mr.) IIJIMA Hiromitsu,                  mailto:delmonta at ht.sakura.ne.jp
           aka Delmonta            http://www.ht.sakura.ne.jp/~delmonta/