OT: BSD License ?
Marcus Meissner
Marcus.Meissner at caldera.de
Tue Jun 12 09:27:08 CDT 2001
> > > If Microsoft picked up some of the code in Wine ,
> > I doubt this will happen ;)
> I just picked Microsoft for effect ..
>
>
> > > wouldn't they need to
> > > include the copyright , permissions notice, and the authors list? It
> > > looks like the license isn't clear as to where the Copyright needs to be
> > > displayed? Could anyone clear this up?
> >
> > The X11 license we use does not require you to do so. This is intentional.
>
> What was the reason for using the X11 license as opposed to a BSD
> license?
We switched from the BSD license to the X11 license on 2000/4/24
to enable commercial companies to be able to include WINE into their
products.
Ciao, Marcus
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