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Re: KDE - license issue



On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 11:44:47PM +0200, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona wrote:
>  > > 	Probably I'm missing something, but BSD+GPL seems similar to
>  > > QtL+GPL (with respect to incompatibility)
>  > 
>  > 4 clause BSD yes.
>  > 
>  > X/MIT no since you can literally add the GPL to the top of the list of
>  > copyrights and the whole thing is for all intents and purposes under the
>  > GPL.
>  > 
>  > The actual BSD license is no longer 4 clause, BTW.  =>  Apparently the FSF
>  > had a hand in that.
> 
> 	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...

Only for those coming from UC Berkeley.  Apache for example is not
affected.

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