From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 3 11:21: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (n2000039.telekabel.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E06F91521A for ; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:20:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA05563; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 20:21:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <37D01143.2CA9BC5@nisser.com> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 20:19:47 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: walton@nordicrecords.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Berkeley removes Advertising Clause References: <19990902221136.3481.qmail@modgud.nordicrecords.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > ... > What a lot of people seem to have missed is that Berkeley's removal of > the advertising clause only affects Berkeley's code (that is, code > which is "Copyright 19xx The Regents of the University of > California.") Any *other* code released under the BSD license *with* > the advertising clause is unaffected. Contrast this with the common > practice, in the GPL world, of releasing code "under the terms of the > GNU Public License version 2 or newer", which makes it possible for > the FSF to change the license *even on code they were never involved > in writing*. Not truly in that the user gets to pick the licence he deems best from the entire range starting with the one it was originally released under. That can not be undone. Effectively you're right of course, in that most coders will just release to whatever's the current licence without actually reading or deliberating it. After all, a million lemmings can't be wrong! ;) Still, it does make BSD one of the, if not the, freest OS around. Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message