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Re: Question on wxWindows packages



 --- Adam Warner <lists@consulting.net.nz> escribió: > Hi Roberto Sanchez,

> Roberto, this is a standard permissive MIT/BSD-style licence that has no
> advertising clause and is GPL compatible. The ambiguity in the "without
> fee" section is frequently misinterpreted (it means you can do everything
> listed without payment of any fee to the licensor). For this reason it's
> best left as an historical licence and not used for new software projects.
> The OSI calls it the "Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer":
> <http://www.opensource.org/licenses/historical.php>
> 
> The GPL-incompatible BSD advertising clause is different from a copyright
> notice appearing in the supporting documentation. You can read about the
> advertising clause here: <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html>.
> 
> Welcome to Debian.
> 
> Regards,
> Adam
> 

Adam,

Thanks for the info.  Those links provided some good reading.

-Roberto


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