Licensing: BSD-w/advert

Charles Wilson cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
Tue Dec 4 13:16:00 GMT 2001


Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 02:56:01AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
> 
>>Charles Wilson wrote:
>>It's paragraph #4 that I'm asking about.  Basically, does the old BSD 
>>license satisfy the "open source" exception of cygwin's license?
>>
> 
> What does http://www.opensource.org/osd.html say?


Well, it SEEMS like BSD+advert is okay, but I was looking for some 
official confirmation.  It is odd that


http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.html


doesn't mention whether the old license was osd-compliant or not.

--Chuck






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