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Re: BSD & GPL / deb with 2 licenses?



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Prepare for armageddon, we agree...:)

On 16 Sep 2002, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:

>John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu> writes:
>
>> The BSD Daemon is under the license at 
>> http://www.mckusick.com/beastie/mainpage/copyright.html
>> 
>> The big problem there is that the grant is only to individuals for 
>> personal use.  I'd assume that any other use has to be negotiated with 
>> McKusick himself.  DFSG free?  I can't feature any scenario in which it 
>> would be: the main license discriminates against groups, and any other 
>> licensing would be Debian-specific.
>
>We should remove it; it's not DFSG.
>
>For future reference, Kirk's policy is pretty liberal.  The
>individuals for personal use grant is above.  His policy for other
>uses is:
>
>1) He gets one of whatever the logo is on (t-shirt, whatever), and 
>2) He has to judge it to be in good taste.
>
>For example, he told me he would not be happy with a herd of gnus
>chasing down a terrified BSD daemon, but a BSD daemon and a Gnu
>shaking hands would be just fine.
>
>Thomas
>

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