[Asterisk-biz] distribution of asterisk

[trixter aka Bret McDanel]

On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 11:08 -0500, Iain Barker wrote:
> trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
> 
> >  * 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.
> 
> > Any advertising I do needs to have that as well should I advertise a feature (like the cli).
> 
> 
> The above clause was was rescinded for all works originally licensed under the BSD whose Copyright is held by Regents of the University of California.
> 
> Refer to discussions on the FSF website (re:"obnoxious BSD advertising clause") and this statement from the Regents:
> 
> ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change

That may be however when others get involved, like netbsd that may not
be the case.  And anyone can take a BSD license and keep that clause.
Without hearing that from the current holders I wouldnt want to risk it.
So the NetBSD part may still hold, after all it is clear they did modify
the license to include 'netbsd' as part of it.


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