Re: [gNewSense-users] BSD code

[Markus Laire]

Sam Geeraerts wrote:
> I'm not sure what that update section talks about. It says the copyright 
> has changed, but I think they mean the license. Presumably the original 
> license was the original BSD license, but has now been updated to be the 
> modified BSD license. I think it's better to confirm this with the 
> copyright holders.

update section might be talking about the following announcement from 
year 1999 (link found from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses )

ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
: July 22, 1999
:
: To All Licensees, Distributors of Any Version of BSD:
:
: As you know, certain of the Berkeley Software Distribution ("BSD") source
: code files require that further distributions of products containing 
all or
: portions of the software, acknowledge within their advertising materials
: that such products contain software developed by UC Berkeley and its
: contributors.
:
: Specifically, the provision reads:
:
: "     * 3. 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."
:
: Effective immediately, licensees and distributors are no longer 
required to
: include the acknowledgement within advertising materials. 
Accordingly, the
: foregoing paragraph of those BSD Unix files containing it is hereby 
deleted
: in its entirety.
:
: William Hoskins
: Director, Office of Technology Licensing
: University of California, Berkeley

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Markus Laire