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Re: BSD-2-Clause with 'in this position and unchanged' addition? libarchive



On Wednesday, September 3, 2025 10:40:38 AM Mountain Standard Time Daniel 
Hakimi wrote:
> I fear there might be more than two versions of the BSD 2-clause license.
> The BSD licenses were not as strictly distributed and formalized as a lot
> of modern, complex, versioned licenses. Accordingly, I think it might be a
> little bit pointless to delineate between two of the nearly-equivalent
> 2-clause licenses when there are so many versions out there.

Unfortunately, there are a whole lot of versions of a lot of licenses.  I wish 
people wouldn’t go creating modified licenses without a *really good reason*, 
but unfortunately, we can’t always control what upstream does.  But we do need 
to reflect all these custom licenses accurately in debian/copyright.

-- 
Soren Stoutner
soren@debian.org

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