License conflict for VM screensaver (kdeartwork)

Waldo Bastian bastian at kde.org
Fri Oct 15 12:48:32 BST 2004


On Friday 15 October 2004 12:54, Andrew Coles wrote:
> On Friday 15 Oct 2004 11:37, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > I don't think I can because the other part of the license says
> > "Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted provided
> > that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are duplicated in all
> > such forms ..."
>
> Then how about adding:
>
> The aforementioned advertising clause was officially retracted in 1999:
> licensees and distributors are no longer required to include the
> acknowledgement within advertising materials.  As such, this licence is
> compatible with the GNU GPL, for those concerned.

Good idea, I added 

 /*
  * Please note that as of July 22, 1999, the licensees and distributors
  * are no longer required to include the above mentioned acknowledgement
  * within advertising materials. For full details see
  * ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
  */

Cheers,
Waldo
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