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Re: licensing question for a C++ template library: msg#00020org.fsf.europe.discussion
On 22-Oct-2006, simo wrote: > I also changed BSD to X11 which is equivalent but without the > Advertising clause so that there is no ambiguity Unfortunately this doesn't help avoid ambiguity. X11 has been released under several different licenses, not all of them free. The best course, if you want to avoid ambiguity, is to avoid talking about the terms of "the X11 license" (since there is no one such license), and instead talk about the terms of the Expat license: <URL:http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt> -- \ "Truth would quickly cease to become stranger than fiction, | `\ once we got as used to it." -- Henry L. Mencken | _o__) | Ben Finney <ben-TqlCGjI+HWGnbCmf7pGUHw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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