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Re: license question



This one time, at band camp, Daniel Knabl said:
> Hi,
> 
> please have a look at the following license. In my eyes it is not a
> true BSD license, but also no Artistic license. But, I may be wrong.
> This would not be the first time :-/
> Would it be OK to just include this license into the debian/copyright
> file? Or is it a common-license that I just don't understand? 

It tries to be a BSD style license, as far as I can tell, but it has a
problem:

>    Copyright 2003 Avleen Vig and Virtual Exim Development Team.
> 
>    THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE FREEBSD PROJECT ``AS IS'' AND ANY

Unless Avleen Vig and the Vexim team are part of the BSD project, then
this license is just silly.

That will need fixing.
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