[Fedora-legal-list] Verification request of a BSD-like license

Robin Lee robinlee.sysu at gmail.com
Sat Sep 18 08:12:30 UTC 2010


The license is mostly BSD-like, but a sample of it is not found in
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/BSD . The forth clause seems a bit
different from other variants and a like sentence can be found in GPL.

Robin
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