From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 9 15:06:26 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA22314 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 15:06:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA22298 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 15:06:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA05465; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 09:36:14 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id JAA69273; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 09:36:13 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 09:36:13 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "John S. Dyson" Cc: lcremean@tidalwave.net, brett@lariat.org, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, licia@o-o.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: BSD license (was: GPL *again* (was: New CODA release)) Message-ID: <19990210093613.B86778@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990208141042.A2652@tidalwave.net> <199902091617.LAA10735@y.dyson.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199902091617.LAA10735@y.dyson.net>; from John S. Dyson on Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 11:17:20AM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday, 9 February 1999 at 11:17:20 -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: > The standard BSD license is already poison pilled. In fact, it is quite fair > by requiring attribution. Just be sure to provide an extra 20-30K of CDROM > space for attribution. :-). Whatever came of the UCB/System V lawsuit about attribution? The BSD-derived System V sources I've seen don't even have the license in them. > One other reason for not publicizing the use of BSD code, is the > advertisment clause. That is actually a disadvantage. It's also vague. On the one hand you have to state that the code includes BSD-derived code, on the other hand you can't use it for advertising. Where's the distinction? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message