Re: 4 Clause license?

Rod Taylor wrote:

>>I think maybe the simplest thing is for me to prepare a patch that rips 
>>that code out and replaces it with a (slightly simpler - less umask 
>>hacking required, I think) piece of code that I will write.
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>The FreeBSD folks sorted it out for us.
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>Everyones names should be in the copyright for the file. The licence
>portion should be the 3 clause version -- no advertising clause.
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Whose names? It's not easily discoverable from browsing the CVS tree. I 
would probably spend as much time, if not more, finding out as in 
rewriting the 40 or so lines of code required.

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>I think borrowing should be encouraged, and now that we know what
>license / copyright we need to carry over, this can be done without
>worry.
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I'm a fan of borrowing, but not if it causes headaches.

I'll hold off for a bit in case I've misunderstood something.

<troll>Of course, now that SCO is claiming ownership of BSD code ..... 
</troll>

cheers

andrew