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Re: missing license?



Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost> writes:

> Fredrik Pettai <pettai%nordu.net@localhost> writes:
>
>> On 11/10/09 11:06 PM, Larson, Timothy E. wrote:
>>>> How does it differ from new BSD?
>>>
>>> I guess the terms are substantially the same as the 3-clause version, 
>>> except that the copyright isn't to UCBerkeley, etc etc.
>>
>> You can use this in the Makefile, which I do for missing licenses
>>
>> LICENSE=        xxx-license
>> LICENSE_FILE=   ${FILESDIR}/xxx-license
>>
>> (and add the licens to the files directory for that package)
>
> Common opinion is using "modified-bsd" for all BSD licences where terms
> are equivalent and only copyright holder differs.

Definitely.  LICENSE= is meant to denote the terms, not who holds copyright.
If we did that we'd need a fancier filesystem to hold all the license files....

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