Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 22:17:05 -0700 From: Matthew Navarre <mnavarre@cox.net> To: Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD legal question Message-ID: <5430CFEF-E907-4347-8671-24D85F90B2D7@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <200505190508.07745.danny@ricin.com> References: <428BE69F.50CA5ADC@cs.berkeley.edu> <428BEB11.7070103@donnacha.com> <20050518223157.O10932@zoraida.natserv.net> <200505190508.07745.danny@ricin.com>
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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 > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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