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Re: BSD Protection License



On 2003-10-23 16:50:38 +0100 Dylan Thurston <dpt@math.harvard.edu> wrote:
For instance, take the GPL: Clause 1 grants permission to distribute
verbatim copies, which is obviously not free enough for Debian; it's
only Clause 3 that grants you permission to distribute modified
copies.  The situation seems analogous.

Clause 1 of GPL is not concerned with distribution of modified copies at all. Here, clauses 3 and 4 appear to cover the exact same permission but make incompatible requirements of the distributor.

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