On 12/28/2012 7:20 PM, Live user wrote: > The BSD license says that > > * Copyright (c) > * > * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any > * purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the > * above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all > * copies
Where did you find that? http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html cites the Berkeley copyright notice as saying (in part) * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions * are met: * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. Which seems to address your concern quite precisely. Existing code with that notice must retain that notice, even in derivative works. Binary distributions should include the notice, but not necessarily exclusively. The version of the BSD license cited at opensource.org (http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause) also makes it clear: % Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without % modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: % Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, % this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. % Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright % notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the % documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. And this is exactly what everyone is doing, and no one has found a way to sue over it yet... which at least suggests your concern is misguided. -- Matthew Weigel hacker unique & idempot . ent
