On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:56:14AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > The text of this license is nearly identical to that in > /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD, modulo the different copyright holder > and the corresponding changes in the third clause and warranty > disclaimer. Oddly, it seems that "name of the University" was replaced > with "author" rathther than "name of the author"; I don't think that > affects the DFSG-Freeness of the license. Other than the minor > differences in wording, this looks like a standard 3-clause BSD license, > which is DFSG-Free.
The need to change that clause to use the license is one reason I prefer the X11/MIT license; it can be used with only changes to the copyright notice, so there are fewer trivial variations to scrutinize. -- Glenn Maynard
