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From: Tim Harder <radhermit@g.o>
Subject: Re: New License: FreeBSD License
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:28:16 -0700
On 2012-03-28 Wed 17:31, Richard Yao wrote:
> > Gentoo/FreeBSD is currently using the BSD license, but it seems that
> > this is not the license used by the BSD project:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html
> > In particular, the FreeBSD license removes the third clause and appends
> > "The views and conclusions contained in the software and documentation
> > are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing
> > official policies, either expressed or implied, of the FreeBSD Project."
> > For comparison, here is a link to the BSD license in portage:
> > http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/licenses/BSD?view=markup
> > Does anyone have any objections to committing the FreeBSD license to
> > portage?

> As a small correction, I meant to say the FreeBSD project, not the BSD
> project.

Isn't this just a slightly modified version of the BSD-2 license in the
tree?

Tim

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