For Approval: The Simplified BSD License

[Donovan Hawkins]

On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Matthew Flaschen wrote:

> ...and some BSD licensors are unwilling to use MIT...

Why is that exactly? The proliferation of BSD-like licenses is enormous, 
and I don't quite understand the reason for it when so many of the 
licenses are so similar.

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