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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
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