From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 19 03:08:59 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8A8C16A4CE for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 03:08:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpq2.home.nl (smtpq2.home.nl [213.51.128.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C7F343D93 for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 03:08:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from [213.51.128.132] (port=42400 helo=smtp1.home.nl) by smtpq2.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DYbP8-0004jh-Lw for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 05:08:58 +0200 Received: from cp464173-a.dbsch1.nb.home.nl ([84.27.215.228]:63645 helo=desktop.homenet) by smtp1.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DYbP6-0001y1-QM for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 05:08:56 +0200 From: Danny Pansters To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 05:08:07 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <428BE69F.50CA5ADC@cs.berkeley.edu> <428BEB11.7070103@donnacha.com> <20050518223157.O10932@zoraida.natserv.net> In-Reply-To: <20050518223157.O10932@zoraida.natserv.net> X-Face: "0Qv=,p:+]LvuqrtS4U\z3k"qN=.1]@=?utf-8?q?=258=3F=3BPoab=23v=27F=7E=0A=09!Wm=5Fe-=24=7EL=5D=3B?=>[c*L^Qoladj)x@mH}Bqz"vLO?Zdl}[@V@=?utf-8?q?U=3Fx3=23lI=3A=0A=09=24DN=7E!Hr?=@K`-mNv"zXm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505190508.07745.danny@ricin.com> X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Subject: Re: BSD legal question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 03:09:00 -0000 On Thursday 19 May 2005 04:32, Francisco Reyes wrote: > On Thu, 19 May 2005 freebsd.org@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