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Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 22:23:42 -0700
To: Arun Sharma <arun@sharma-home.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Re: IBM Public license compatible ?
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At 05:36 PM 11/24/2001, Arun Sharma wrote:
  
>Does anyone know ?

The IBM Public License is more like BSD than the GPL. 
(When you distribute a derivative work, there's an obligation 
to state how source code may be obtained, but you do not have 
to provide it unconditionally or for free.) There's also a 
significant amount of verbiage about patent claims. See

http://www.research.ibm.com/jikes/license/license3.htm

--Brett Glass







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