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Frits van Bommel fvbommel at REMwOVExCAPSs.nl
Mon Nov 20 03:31:12 PST 2006


Lutger wrote:
> Don Clugston wrote:
>> Really, all I want to do with the license is to provide reassurance 
>> that there will never be legal issues associated with the code. From 
>> what I've heard, BSD/MIT licenses are better than public domain for this.
> 
> What is the problem with public domain?
> Can GPL software use BSD licensed components? Some sites claim it can't 
> because of the advertising clause, but then there are a couple of BSD 
> licenses.

Those sites are talking about the _old_ BSD license. The new BSD license 
is identical except that problematic clause is removed.
IIRC, Linux contains quite a bit of (new) BSD-licensed code, and is GPL.



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