[Haskell-cafe] Re: Problems trying to understand the BSD license

Brian Hulley brianh at metamilk.com
Mon Sep 4 14:32:01 EDT 2006


Simon Marlow wrote:
> Brian Hulley wrote:
>>        Copyright (c) 1988 XYZ ...
>
> Giving proper copyright attribution is not considered an endorsement,
> no. [other useful comments]
>
>> Also what about the application's "about" dialog or help pages?
>
> There's no requirement in the BSD license that you have to put the
> copyright notice in the about dialog or the help pages (IIRC this is
> what the XFree86 project tried to do, and much uproar resulted).
>

Hi Simon -
Thanks for the comments regarding my BSD questions - they've helped to clear 
away my confusion.

Best regards, Brian.
-- 
Logic empowers us and Love gives us purpose.
Yet still phantoms restless for eras long past,
congealed in the present in unthought forms,
strive mightily unseen to destroy us.

http://www.metamilk.com 



More information about the Haskell-Cafe mailing list