On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 04:38:18PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Francesco Poli: > > > On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 18:17:24 -0700 Joel Aelwyn wrote: > > > >> But in my experience, when > >> contacting authors, a great many of them simply copied boilerplate > >> from an old BSD license, and if you discuss with them the rationale > >> given by the University of California when they > >> mass-retroactively-relicensed from the 4-clause to 3-clause license, > >> they may well be quite happy to relicense. > > > > Could you please provide an URL for this rationale? > > Just search for the string "REGENTS" in these license copies. Often, > the name of the copyright holder is changed, but the following > disclaimer is copied verbatim, even though "regents" doesn't have much > meaning when the copyright holder (or distributor) is not an > organization with such a supervisory body.
I don't quite know what you mean: I think he was asking for the rationale for dropping the advertising clause, which you won't find in the license texts. ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change doesn't mention rationale, either. (I've heard claims that UofC's relicensing was based more on the fact that the clause is probably unenforcable than the FSF's practical complaints. I don't know if that's true.) -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
