Recently I saw an article regarding some changes in the BSD license.

The article in question is published on www.freebsdrocks.com and goes
like this:
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        from ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change 
        July 22, 1999 
        To All Licensees, Distributors of Any Version of BSD: 
        As you know, certain of the Berkeley Software Distribution ("BSD") 
        source code files require that further distributions of products 
        containing all or portions of the software, acknowledge within their 
        advertising materials that such products contain software developed 
        by UC Berkeley and its contributors. 

        Specifically, the provision reads: 
        " 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use 
          of this software must display the following acknowledgement: 
      This product includes software developed by the University of 
      California, Berkeley and its contributors." 

        Effective immediately, licensees and distributors are no longer 
        required to include the acknowledgement within advertising 
        materials. Accordingly, the foregoing paragraph of those BSD Unix 
        files containing it is hereby deleted in its entirety. 

                   William Hoskins 
                   Director, Office of Technology Licensing 
                   University of California, Berkeley 
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Probably not everyone is aware of this, therefore I mention it this way,
just for your information.


---Csaba Szigetv�ri

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