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Re: A meager copyright. Remotely acceptable?



On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 02:37:56PM +0200, Mats Erik Andersson wrote:
[...]
> That leaves __one_single__ file (oftpd-0.3.7/COPYING) expressing a
> claim of copyright. The text is below reproduced verbatim. As far
> as I can understand the text there seems to yield no possiblility to
> relate this to GPL, and to no other DFSG-compliant license either.
> Am I correct in this observation?
[...]

That's the 2-Clause BSD license:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#2-clause_license_.28.22Simplified_BSD_License.22_or_.22FreeBSD_License.22.29

I used to use it for my projects before I switched them to the ISC
license (functionally the same but with more terse wording). It is
both DFSG-free and GPL-compatable, FWIW.
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