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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.jsums.edu!despina.neptune.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: 7 Dec 1995 22:57:47 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4a7rhb$jns@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <poulosioDIFAnC.ECw@netcom.com> <4972bn$psq@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <49ijf9$9rc@tombstone.kent.edu> <30BD2617.23585C28@mcs.net> <49k0dd$pfg@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <49o2n2$t4e@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu> <49osrd$ptg@times.tfs.com> <49rm0g$o8o@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu> <DJ2IBL.71t@nntpa.cb.att.com> <DJ3DM7.n0L@kroete2.freinet.de> <4a14v5$1lq@dyson.iquest.net> <DJ533J.DDs@kroete2.freinet.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:29592 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:9981 comp.unix.advocacy:11865 comp.unix.misc:19913 erik@kroete2.freinet.de (Erik Corry) writes: > No, the GPL requires that you preserve Copyright information, too, so > authors are given their due credit (unless they give up their copyright). > The problem is that the BSD license forbids advertising using the > names of authors. This is an additional restriction, and is not allowed > by the GPL. It's that banal. I am not a lawyer. Note that many BSD developers start dropping this clause (and the ``This product includes...'' requirement) from their copyright notices now, since it becomes impractical these days. It's been practical at a time where you've only had to mention ``The Regents of the ...'', but The Times They Are A-Changing. I usually contribute my code according to the ``base rules'' of the project i'm contributing to (BSD, X11, GPL), but after reading all of them, i would prefer BSD or X11 over GPL for entirely new work. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)