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Date:      Wed, 18 May 2005 22:26:55 -0700
From:      Matthew Navarre <mnavarre@cox.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BSD legal question
Message-ID:  <1210734D-3C24-4E66-ADDF-3876A21DB7F1@cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <5430CFEF-E907-4347-8671-24D85F90B2D7@cox.net>
References:  <428BE69F.50CA5ADC@cs.berkeley.edu> <428BEB11.7070103@donnacha.com> <20050518223157.O10932@zoraida.natserv.net> <200505190508.07745.danny@ricin.com> <5430CFEF-E907-4347-8671-24D85F90B2D7@cox.net>

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On May 18, 2005, at 10:17 PM, Matthew Navarre wrote:

>
> On May 18, 2005, at 8:08 PM, Danny Pansters wrote:
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> No, the accreditation Francisco was refereing to

DOH! sorry, wrong button.

>
>>
>> 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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