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The problems associated with the BSD license described in
http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/bsd.html
now seem to have been solved,since the following announcement has appeared:
from ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
July 22, 1999
To All Licensees, Distributors of Any Version of BSD:
As you know, certain of the Berkeley Software Distribution ("BSD")
source code files require that further distributions of products
containing all or portions of the software, acknowledge within their
advertising materials that such products contain software developed
by UC Berkeley and its contributors.
Specifically, the provision reads:
" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use
of this software must display the following acknowledgement:
This product includes software developed by the University of
California, Berkeley and its contributors."
Effective immediately, licensees and distributors are no longer
required to include the acknowledgement within advertising
materials. Accordingly, the foregoing paragraph of those BSD Unix
files containing it is hereby deleted in its entirety.
William Hoskins
Director, Office of Technology Licensing
University of California, Berkeley