From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 27 21:55:40 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B50DB16A4BF for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 21:55:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from t-mta3.odn.ne.jp (mfep3.odn.ne.jp [143.90.131.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 650E643FE5 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 21:55:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from delmonta@ht.sakura.ne.jp) Received: from ht.sakura.ne.jp ([218.218.206.139]) by t-mta3.odn.ne.jp with ESMTP id <20030828045538728.ZTIB.358488.t-mta3.odn.ne.jp@mta3.odn.ne.jp>; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:55:38 +0900 Message-ID: <3F4D8B28.737D6B0C@ht.sakura.ne.jp> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:55:04 +0900 From: IIJIMA Hiromitsu Organization: DENNOU GEDOU GAKKAI, N. D. D. http://www.dennougedougakkai-ndd.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [ja] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: ja,en,zh-TW,zh,zh-CN,de,es,ko MIME-Version: 1.0 To: doc-jp-work@jp.freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG References: <002901c36c93$ee58dfa0$020ba8c0@front> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD-users-jp@jp.FreeBSD.org Subject: Obsolete license terms at the FreeBSD website (Re:[FreeBSD-users-jp 75962]) X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: doc-jp-work@jp.freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 04:55:40 -0000 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/