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Re: Licenses links broken



On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:30:09 +0200 Laura Creighton wrote:

> In a message of Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:04:17 +0200, Francesco Poli writes:
> <snip>
> >
> >Actually, the MIT_License wikipedia page currently includes the
> >Expat/MIT license, not the X11/MIT license.  I would suggest to use the
> >following link:
> >
> >Expat/MIT license: http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt
> >
> >The so-called X11/MIT license uses a slightly different wording and
> >also includes a clause forbidding unauthorized use of names in
> >advertising.
> 
> According to wikipedia that is a FSF-modified version of the MIT 
> license from 1998, first used with ncurses.  So if you download that
> maybe you will find the license you remember.

Unfortunately, the license text I used to know as the X11 license[1] is
similar to the ncurses license[2], but differs in many details.

[1] see http://bugs.debian.org/284340
[2] http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#who_owns_it

Thanks anyway.



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