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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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