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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New License: FreeBSD License
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:56:43
Message-Id: 20120329115536.7461cf34@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New License: FreeBSD License by Richard Yao
1 On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:00:17 -0400
2 Richard Yao <ryao@×××××××××××××.edu> wrote:
3 >
4 > You are right. I spoke to ulm about this and the disclaimer can be
5 > considered separate from the license. Gentoo/FreeBSD will need to
6 > switch to BSD-2, but aside from that, there is no need for a new
7 > license.
8 >
9
10 grep shows that a lot of files in freebsd source tree have a 3 clause
11 bsd; if you can identify files with a BSD-2 license, then you can
12 append it to the LICENSE field, but a switch is incorrect
13
14
15 A.