Simplified BSD license

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at linpro.no
Tue Jun 5 07:53:39 UTC 2007


Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at linpro.no> writes:
> > 3) The license is derived from the (revised) BSD license, with the
> >    no-endorsement clause removed, leaving only the attribution-in-source
> >    and attribution-with-binary clauses.
> Can't you just use the MIT license?  That doesn't have the
> endorsements clause.  I really don't see a /need/ for this license.

Nonetheless, it is widely used, and I can't quite see myself asking
{Free,Net,Open}BSD to replace their license with the MIT license.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Senior Software Developer
Linpro AS - www.linpro.no



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