Re: [gNewSense-users] BSD code

[Peter and Jesse]

On Tue, 2008-15-04 at 20:28 +0300, Markus Laire wrote:
> Sam Geeraerts wrote:
> > I'm not sure what that update section talks about. It says the copyright 
> > has changed, but I think they mean the license. Presumably the original 
> > license was the original BSD license, but has now been updated to be the 
> > modified BSD license. I think it's better to confirm this with the 
> > copyright holders.
> 
> update section might be talking about the following announcement from 
> year 1999 (link found from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses )
> 
> 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.

Thanks for the clarification. I came across this at
http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Kernel/Ubuntu-hardy-linux-2-6-24-12-22--drivers--isdn--i4l--isdn-bsdcomp-c
 and I think you're right that it's now the modified BSD license. However, just 
to clarify, what do we do if we do come across a free GPL-incompatible license?
 Peter