Richard Welty wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 17:23:56 -0500 (EST) Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> > Richard Welty wrote:
> > > but you can consult with the attorneys for the Regents. they have
> > > changed the license at times, and have passed those changes on
> > > to other BSD licensed projects (e.g., when they removed the
> > > advertising clause the advertising clause was also removed from
> > > all the code in the OpenBSD distribution that was inherited from
> > > the original BSD project.)
>
> > If you changed the wording of the BSD license in your distribution, did
> > you talk to Berkeley before doing this? What does your wording have?
>
> the current wording in the OpenBSD source code is as follows. it was
> last changed in July 1999, when the Regents dropped the old
> 3rd term (the advertising clause.)
>
> * Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1993
> * The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> *
> * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
> * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
> * are met:
> * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
> * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
> * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
> * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
> * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
> * 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
> * may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
> * without specific prior written permission.
> *
> * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
> * ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
> * IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
> * ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
> * FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
> * DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
> * OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
> * HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
> * LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
> * OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
> * SUCH DAMAGE.
OK, where did you get this wording? Is this something Berkeley released
as one of their versions of the BSD license.
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