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Re: Please pass judgement on X-Oz licence: free or nay?



Anthony DeRobertis <anthony@derobert.net> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 11:15:09AM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote:
>> Brian, stop calling the MIT and 3 clause BSD licenses non-free. If
>> anyone needed evidence that debian-legal has become overreaching and
>> useless, it's here.
>
> Please note that is not a consensus here.

The BSD license is DFSG-free because the DFSG explicitly states
that it is free.  The DFSG was written long before UC removed the
advertising clause, so this is the version of the BSD license
that the DFSG references.
-- 
Ben Pfaff 
email: blp@cs.stanford.edu
web: http://benpfaff.org



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