Andrei's Google Talk

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Juanjo Alvarez Wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:53:33 +0200, Don <nospam at nospam.com> wrote:
> > No, but you have to include the license WITH the executable (in the 
> > 'documentation and other materials'). Which is fine if in fact 
> there are 
> > 'documentation and other materials'. But it would seem to prohibit 
> > distribution of a bare executable.
> 
> You can include it in the about box, in the --help switch, etc. Many 
> programs do it that way and I never heard of any problem with that.

A valid corner case example was given here: a hello world application. A minimal hello world application is "Hello world!" + the bytes used to make the syscall. The license text would bloat the executable horribly. Thus, BSD isn't suitable for *all* commercial application development. QED