BSD legal question
Danny Pansters
danny at ricin.com
Wed May 18 20:09:00 PDT 2005
On Thursday 19 May 2005 04:32, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> On Thu, 19 May 2005 freebsd.org at donnacha.com wrote:
> > Francisco Reyes wrote:
> >> BSD - You can take the code and do as you please. No need to even give
> >> back the changes you made.
> >
> > Although you DO need to carry the accreditation.
>
> Wasn't that restriction later removed too?
That6's the advertising clause which rewuired any advertising material to
claim something like "Includes stuff from *BSD". That has long been taken
out, but there's some projects that still have it.
The acknowledgementment means in source code original license and credits and
in binary some cridits for example in the help|about or the man page. Where
it's most appropriate (though the legalese doesn't specifically say that
because of course it opens up a debate about the definition of
"appropriate" ;-)
IANAL
Dan
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