Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:55:04 +0900 From: IIJIMA Hiromitsu <delmonta@ht.sakura.ne.jp> To: doc-jp-work@jp.freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: FreeBSD-users-jp@jp.FreeBSD.org Subject: Obsolete license terms at the FreeBSD website (Re:[FreeBSD-users-jp 75962]) Message-ID: <3F4D8B28.737D6B0C@ht.sakura.ne.jp> References: <002901c36c93$ee58dfa0$020ba8c0@front>
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Dear all: # [Note] I've once posted it with charset=iso-2022-jp; I am reposting # since the previous post might be refused from FreeBSD-doc@freebsd.org. # # And I got subscribed to freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, so direct your replies # to the two groups. This is an information from a thread that starts with [FreeBSD-users-jp 75962]. http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/ and http://www.freebsd.org/ja/copyright/ introduce some copyright and legal issues concerning FreeBSD, but it seems that some of them are obsolete. 1. About GNU LGPL: GNU Library GPL (LGPL) was renamed to GNU *Lesser* GPL (also abbreviated as LGPL), with the reason described at http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html. The page above claims that ordinary GPL, not LGPL, should be applied for certain libraries while some libraries should remain in LGPL. I think that at least the page http://www.freebsd.org/(ja/)copyright/COPYING.LIB should be replaced by the latest Lesser GPL 2.1. 2. About 4.4BSD Copyright Terms: In the 4.4BSD copyright terms in http://www.freebsd.org/(ja/)copyright/license.html, the clause | 3.All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software | must display the following acknowledgement: | | This product includes software developed by the University of | California, Berkeley and its contributors. was 'deleted in its entirety' in 1999, by the Director of Office of Tech- nology Licensing at UCB. cf. http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php I think that the fact that this clause was deleted should be noted as editors' note, with original text kept original, to show the historical change. ======================================================================== (Mr.) IIJIMA Hiromitsu, mailto:delmonta@ht.sakura.ne.jp aka Delmonta http://www.ht.sakura.ne.jp/~delmonta/
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