Communication skills

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at linpro.no> writes:
> "The FreeBSD License" is entirely Russ's invention.  The FreeBSD
> Project claims a compilation copyright on the FreeBSD operating
> system, which is a composite work consisting of ~20,000 source files
> totalling nearly 9 MLOC plus untold man pages, Makefiles, shell
> scripts and other, obtained from many different sources under many
> different licenses, including the GPL, the CDDL, the BSD License, the
> New BSD License, the MIT License, the Beerware License and the
> Simplified BSD License.  The FreeBSD Project licenses that work as a
> whole under a license which is similar but not identical to the
> Simplified BSD License (the dislcaimer has an additional paragraph
> disclaiming responsibility for the views of the individual authors)

and the punch line, which I inadvertantly left out, is that they do
not have any name for that license - the title of the web page on
which it is presented is "The FreeBSD Copyright" (but a copyright is
not a license, nor vice versa)

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