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Date:      Tue, 23 Feb 1999 03:32:57 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass)
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: reviewers for a free software license
Message-ID:  <199902230332.UAA15907@usr08.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990222200825.03ffb500@mail.lariat.org> from "Brett Glass" at Feb 22, 99 08:19:21 pm

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> If the GPL is shown to be illegal (which I hope it will be), then such
> a clause would be invalidated in the new license, too. It would then
> revert to being the standard BSD license, which is (I believe) what
> would ideally be used in the first place. 

The standard UCB license does not contain a severability clause,
so a failure of one term fails back to "no license to use".  GPL
does the same thing.

Also, neither license specifically acknowledges DFARS.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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