Re: Outgoing section 5.5 and draft-josefsson (Re: San Diego meeting slot)

[Harald Alvestrand <harald at alvestrand.no>]

Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Harald Alvestrand <harald at alvestrand.no> writes:
>
>   
> > I think we need to separate the question of copyright notices from the
> > question of copying conditions.
> >     
>
> Why?
>   
Because a copyright notice is a statement about a fact that we have no 
intention of changing (we have not planned to do copyright assignment).

We *are* debating copying conditions.
>   
> > The BSD licenses require preservation of copryight notices; the GPL
> > licenses place requirements on the copying conditions.
> >     
>
> That is false, from the BSD license:
> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php
>
>    Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
>    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
>
> The "list of conditions and the following disclaimer" refer to the
> copying conditions.
>
> The BSD and GPL are similar in this respect, at least if I understand
> what you are getting at.
So the BSD license may have the same problem as the GPL license in this 
regard.


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