Re: A little question of a license

[Lawrence Williams <lawrencewilliams@nl.rogers.com>]

I'm no legal genius, but it looks fairly benign. Basically it says, "as 
long as you give us credit for the code, you can do whatever you want 
with it".

- Lawrence

Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to ask if a software that contains a file with this:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Copyright (C) 2005, XXXXXX
>    All rights reserved.
>
>   Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
>    modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
>    are met:
>
>      1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
>         notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
>
>      2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
>         notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
>         documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
>
>      3. The names of its contributors may not be used to endorse or promote
>         products derived from this software without specific prior written
>         permission.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> could be in main? (so is dfsg)
>
> I think that yes, but I must admit that the legal stuff is something unclear 
> to me. Something as the classical licenses are clear, but this custom makes 
> me crazy.
>
> Regards,
>
> Leo
>
>
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