Re: Re: [HACKERS] My new job

Dan Moschuk <dan@freebsd.org>

From: Dan Moschuk <dan@freebsd.org>
To: Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com>
Cc: Gunnar R|nning <gunnar@candleweb.no>, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-10-13T08:19:47Z
Lists: pgsql-general
| > Of course both lincenses can be the basis of propriatery efforts(GPL and
| > Apache(BSD style licenses). My company used to  prefere investing in GPL SW
| > because of the lack of the adv. clause.
| This is sort of a red herring. BSD style is just that, BSD style. _most_
| BSD-style licenses (and _the_ BSD license of Regents of UC) removed the
| 'obnoxious advertising' clause. 
| 
| There are other reasons to prefer BSD-style over GPL, but this isn't one.

True, but the advertising clause in _the_ BSD license was only just removed
a little while ago...

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