ESST license

[Florian Weimer]

"Parson, Dale E \(Dale\)" <dparson at agere.com> writes:

> This software is provided subject to the following terms
> and conditions, which you should read carefully before
> using the software. Using this software indicates your
> acceptance of these terms and conditions.  If you do not
> agree with these terms and conditions, do not use the
> software. 

Not valid over here.  You can run software without a license, so
mandatory acceptance of the license does not work.

> Redistribution and use in source or binary forms, with or
> without modifications, are permitted provided that the
> following conditions are met: 
>
> o Redistributions of source code must retain the above
>   copyright notice, this list of conditions and the
>   following Disclaimer in comments in the code as well as
>   in the documentation and/or other materials provided with
>   the distribution.

This requirement does not cover the clause mentioned above.

We can't you use a straight BSD-type license?
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