Re: the modified BSD license is no more

[Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <gaia@iki.fi>]

On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 08:35:59PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> Whatever :) Even the Regents of the University of California have switched
> to the better version of the license, which only strenghtens the position of
> encouraging people to not use the advertising clause. The old version is
> history and it should stay there.

The old version is definitely *not* history, it is still used by many
packages (the Regents' decision only affects stuff they hold copyright
on).  I agree that it should not be recommended for new programs, but this
is not something that has changed, and the old version still is DFSG free.

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