* Ganesan Rajagopal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060823 10:40]: > >> I have been told by two different developers that licences using the > >> 4-clauses BSD licence as a template are free or non-free > > > Sounds like some DD could use a licensing refresher course. 4-clause BSD has > > always been considered free by Debian. > > However it's not GPL compatible. May be that's the source of confusion?
It's not only GPL-incompatible, it is also ugly and actively discouraged by most people. It's more or less a debt of history. If it wasn't around for so long before people started to think about free software, I doubt it would have gotten its blessing. So its good for main, but please still try to convice everyone involved to drop it. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
