Re: BSD license issues

[Rene Weber <rene_deblist@elvenlord.com>]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:14:03PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> As you can see, these changes simply replace references to the university and
> its regents with references to the author of the program.  The terms of the
> license remain the same, and so it is equally free.

    Agreed.

> However, it _is_ different, and so you must include a copy of it in the
> copyright file.  For the benefit of the curious, you may want to include a
> short note about how its terms match those of the BSD license.

    Bah.  I was hoping to avoid that conclusion, although I think you are
correct.  :-)  I wonder where we draw the line, however -- if the text is
identical, but the linebreaks different, is that license still "the same"?
Seems like it should be, but perhaps one could argue that the linebreaks
have some meaning.

    Thanks!

Rene

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