On Sunday, 19 March 2000, Chris Sawer writes:
>
> David Chan wrote:
>
> > - We should allow the following licenses: Public Domain, BSD-style and
> > our own copyleft license.
>
> Could someone explain briefly what a BSD-style license is? I guess I
> should really know these things being the maintainer of the Mutopia
> archive...
BSD-style are licenses that say: 'You may do anything you like with this
(software), but you must include this (copyright) notice.
For example:
Copyright (c) 2000 By Me
All rights reserved.
Permission is hereby granted, without written agreement and without
license or royalty fees, to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
software and to distribute modified versions of this software for any
purpose, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph
appear in all copies of this software.
Previously, BSD had a notorious advertisement clause, but it's been
droppend, and that's not the issue here.
You find this license on all kinds of traditional unix software (utilities),
eg, sendmail and of course freebsd.
Jan.
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