On sön, 2008-04-27 at 20:20 +0200, Guido Serassio wrote: > Now I'm very confused.
Don't be. BSD removed clause 3 from their license some many years ago after some discussion with GPL folks and others, which resulted in the 3 clause BSD license normally seen today. You just happened to find a copy originating from BSD before that date and still carrying the original 4 clause BSD license. Checking... yes it was a general blanket license change on all BSD code http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses which references ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change FreeBSD did update their sources to reflect this change in the licensing terms. NetBSD did not... Regards Henrik
