The Legal Tower of Babel, was Re: WebM license resolution.

Jeremy C. Reed reed at reedmedia.net
Mon Jun 7 14:44:39 UTC 2010


On Sun, 6 Jun 2010, Chris Travers wrote:

> This brings up an interesting question about "The BSD License" (in
> scare quotes for a very specific reason here).
> 
> The fact is that there are a large number of subtle variations on the
> BSD license.

As an example, I have a book compilation of only 620 manual pages from 
NetBSD which has 103 unique licenses. 99 are BSD-style licensed and 12 
MIT-style (some files have multiple licenses). 99 different BSD 
licenses!



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