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Date:      Thu, 19 May 2005 05:08:07 +0200
From:      Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BSD legal question
Message-ID:  <200505190508.07745.danny@ricin.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050518223157.O10932@zoraida.natserv.net>
References:  <428BE69F.50CA5ADC@cs.berkeley.edu> <428BEB11.7070103@donnacha.com> <20050518223157.O10932@zoraida.natserv.net>

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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



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