Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265223AbUASQAq (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:00:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265237AbUASQAp (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:00:45 -0500 Received: from dsl093-002-214.det1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.93.2.214]:48133 "EHLO pumpkin.fieldses.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265223AbUASQAo (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:00:44 -0500 Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:00:35 -0500 To: Jes Sorensen Cc: Misshielle Wong , David Schwartz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Giuliano Pochini Subject: Re: License question Message-ID: <20040119160034.GA6846@fieldses.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i From: "J. Bruce Fields" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1309 Lines: 25 On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 03:14:39AM -0500, Jes Sorensen wrote: > This is also known as the BSD 'advertisement' clause which was the > main reason we could never use BSD code in the old days. Berkeley has > since updated their license and removed this clause from it, however > the license still poses a problem since it doesn't include an explicit > patent license grant, but thats a completely different issue. No, the advertising clause was something different: "All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the following acknowledgement: This product includes software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors." The clause you refer to, "Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution", still remains in the modified BSD license which everyone (except some original thinkers on this thread) agrees to be GPL-compatible. --Bruce Fields - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/