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From: Richard M. Stallman
Subject: www/philosophy bsd.html
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 23:43:47 +0000

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       12/08/02 23:43:47

Modified files:
        philosophy     : bsd.html 

Log message:
        Mention that the Apache license is preferred to the X11 license.
        Link to /licenses/license-recommendations.html.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/bsd.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.34&r2=1.35

Patches:
Index: bsd.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/bsd.html,v
retrieving revision 1.34
retrieving revision 1.35
diff -u -b -r1.34 -r1.35
--- bsd.html    10 Jun 2012 08:06:06 -0000      1.34
+++ bsd.html    2 Aug 2012 23:43:31 -0000       1.35
@@ -132,10 +132,16 @@
     example which has no particular problem.  For instance, if you talk
     about &ldquo;X11-style licenses&rdquo;, you will encourage people to copy 
the
     license from X11, which avoids the advertising clause for certain,
-    rather than take a risk by randomly choosing one of the two BSD
+    rather than take a risk by randomly choosing one of the BSD
     licenses.
 </p>
 <p>
+    Or you could mention the non-copyleft license
+    which <a href="/licenses/license-recommendations.html"> we
+    recommend over the other non-copyleft licenses</a>: the Apache 2.0
+    license, which has a clause to prevent patent treachery.
+</p>
+<p>
     When you want to refer specifically to one of the BSD licenses,
     please always state which one: the &ldquo;original BSD license&rdquo; or 
the
     &ldquo;revised BSD license&rdquo;.
@@ -180,7 +186,7 @@
 <p>
 Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2012/06/10 08:06:06 $
+$Date: 2012/08/02 23:43:31 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>



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