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Re: KDE - license issue



On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 11:44:47PM +0200, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona wrote:
> 	Good to know that clause 4 is no longer in BSD license... I
> guess that in that case, copyright files for affected packages should
> be changed...

Actually, it's clause 3 that was retracted.

Only for the stuff that is copyright by the Regents of the University of
California, and the change in terms appears to only apply to code that
has historically benn or is currently part of BSD.

So the advertising clause remains in stuff that is not copyright by the
Regents, and in BSD-licenses stuff they released that was never actually
part of BSD.

The change was dramatic and significant, but it doesn't wipe the
advertising clause off the face of the earth, and we should not pretend
that it does.

<ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change>

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