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Re: OT: Darwin



On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 03:44:42AM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> David N. Welton writes:
> > "Berg, Bj?rn" <BERG@genesys-e.de> writes:
> 
> >> NetBSD has also a not so free sourcecode (I see it as package not
> >> only the Kernel). Some parts are not published under GPL (like
> >> Linux) but under the BSD License which restricts developers and
> >> users.
> >
> > That's not correct.  The BSD license is more liberal than the GPL,
> 
> Nope. The original BSD license places restrictions on how you may
> advertize BSD-based products. (must mention UC Berkeley) While the
> university has dropped this requirement, many people cloned the
> license with their own name in place of UC Berkeley. Thus you may
> not advertize NetBSD without including a huge list of contributers.
> 

True, unless you rewrite that part of the license yourself.  Just look at
Microsoft.  Where are their BSD acks?



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