Re: Heads up: Contributions and advertisement clause
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 10:03:39 -0700 (PDT), Matthew Dillon
<dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
>
> :Hi all,
>
>
> :in the recent discussion, there was a consent that the fourth clause of
> :the original BSD license is mostly unnecessary now. It is still in a lot
> :of our code base, waiting to be cleaned up. For this to easier in the
> :future, I'd like to ask all commiters and distributers to answer this
> :mail if they agree with the removal. For those parts an explicit
> :adversitement is wanted, it should be noted explicitly.
> :
> :Doing it now saves us the paperwork for tracing down our own changes later.
> :We only have to verify / merge with FreeBSD, which is time consuming enough.
> :
> :Joerg
>
> We can only remove the fourth clause for (c)Copyrights that only list
> the U.C. Regents. Any copyright listing other authors instead of or in
> addition to the U.C. Regents requires us to get those author's permission.
>
> -Matt
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