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Re: [News] BSD Licence Under Attack

Roy Schestowitz wrote:
BSD - The Dark Horse of Open Source, by Brendan Scott, OS Law

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| Brendan Scott has been studying the BSD license, particularly in the
| context of Australian law, and he has come up with some startling
| questions. Is the BSD license as permissive as we've thought?
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070114093427179

Ignoble Attack On The BSD License!

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| I do believe that Brendan Scott, the lawyer who owns OpenSourceLaw.biz is
| not only "an open source advocate"... Brendan Scott, who is paying you
| to denigrate BSD? `----


http://beranger.org/index.php?article=2264&from=rss

I think it may have been abused by Microsoft as well as others. My interpretation is that any files or modules using BSD code must have the BSD license viewable via "strings". For example, if a DLL uses BSD code, you should be able to see the BSD license by doing "strings library.DLL".


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