Re: BSDish licenses without explicit modification permission
On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 12:25 AM Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
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> On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 1:55 AM Paul Wise wrote:
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> > Does anyone have any thoughts about this?
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> I talked to one of RedHat's lawyers and they mentioned that they have
> dealt with this problem too and concluded that these licenses were
> intended to cover modification.
This was probably me. :-) Anyway, belatedly belatedly confirming this.
Richard
The current wording of the initial
> part of the BSD license reflects an attempt to correct an earlier
> mistake (i.e. someone pointed out the error and Berkeley added "with
> or without modification"). Also note that the anti-endorsement clause
> implies a right to modify.
>
> --
> bye,
> pabs
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