RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!"

[Neil Blakey-Milner]

On Thu 2003-06-26 (17:32), Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > > less - re-implementable quite quickly
> >
> > You might be surprised...
> 
> ... but any reason why its part of hte main system instead of just put
> into ports?

I hate to get involved, but less isn't only GPL - it's distributable
under an entirely BSD-like license too.

    This program is free software.  You may redistribute it and/or
    modify it under the terms of either:

    1. The GNU General Public License, as published by the Free
       Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any
       later version.  A copy of this license is in the file COPYING.
    or
    2. The Less License, in the file LICENSE.


LICENSE says:

Less
Copyright (C) 1984-2000  Mark Nudelman

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:
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 in the documentation and/or other materials provided with
   the distribution.

Neil
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