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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux vs whatever
Date: 1 Feb 1997 18:01:49 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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In article <5cua6n$8gn@camel2.mindspring.com>,
Kevin P. Neal <kpneal@pobox.com> wrote:
> The BSD license says that you have to give credit, visibly.
> The GNU license says that it can't be used with a "more restrictive"
> license.
The GNU license reads:
1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate
copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the
notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty;
and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License
along with the Program.
That's why "bc" says this when you start it up:
% bc
bc 1.02 (Mar 3, 92) Copyright (C) 1991, 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.
So in what way is the BSD license more restrictive?
--
The Reverend Peter da Silva, ULC, COQO, BOFH.
Har du kramat din varg, idag? `-_-'