question about copying small amounts of code from BSD, MIT or Apache 1.1 licensed open source...
Thorsten Glaser
tg at 66h.42h.de
Thu Jan 6 15:38:01 UTC 2005
John Cowan dixit:
>You guys are lawyers and I'm not, so I'll say what needs saying.
(note I'm not either ;)
>de minimis, and nobody using the BSD license is likely to be a
>fanatic about it.
For small snippets, maybe.
But there are cases which really set one up, and this case in
particular has made many people re-think the BSD advertising
clause, and they've started adding it again lately (especially
people from the NetBSD(tm) corner):
http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4l.html
Just a nice read not too related to the topic.
bye,
//mirabile
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