BCFG Public License
Hi,
The BCFG public license (below) seems pretty much like a standard BSD
+ advertising clause license. I can't quite seem to remember what the
current policy on that sort of license is. Plus, it's got some other
wording -- is it OK? Do any of you have any tips on what I might say
to the author regarding dropping the advertising clause? It's been so
long since I've seen that crop up that I don't really remember how
people were persuaded to do so.
This is from bcfg2, http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2.
Thanks,
-- John
BCFG Public License
Copyright (c) University of Chicago 1999.
1. The "Software", below, refers to the MCS Systems Administration Toolkit
(in either source-code, or binary form) and a "work based on the
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