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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!daily-planet.execpc.com!homer.alpha.net!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news00.sunet.se!sunic!news99.sunet.se!news.uni-c.dk!kroete2!not-for-mail From: erik@kroete2.freinet.de (Erik Corry) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Followup-To: gnu.misc.discuss Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 13:17:25 GMT Organization: Home Lines: 18 Sender: news@kroete2.freinet.de (news) Message-ID: <DJJ0x1.1oC@kroete2.freinet.de> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <DJ6y7H.MIE@kroete2.freinet.de> <4a6fgo$6lg@agate.berkeley.edu> <DJ8xE2.2K9@kroete2.freinet.de> <4akret$fk8@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: arhppp5.uni-c.dk X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950515BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:30357 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10472 comp.unix.advocacy:12216 gnu.misc.discuss:22001 Steve Peltz (peltz@cerl.uiuc.edu) wrote: : I didn't see anywhere in the GPL where it granted the recipient the right : to use the name "University of California, Berkeley". Now, there may be : some additional requirements in the BSD copyright that conflict with the : GPL, but that ain't one of them. So why include the advertising-forbidden clause at all? If it doesn't conflict with the GPL it can only be because it has no effect. Apparently people have started to omit it, and that seems very sensible to me. I'm quite surprised that there's no concensus on whether the GPL and BSD licenses are compatible, but that certainly seems to be the situation. -- You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands. -- The Red Queen -- Erik Corry ehcorry@inet.uni-c.dk