tech-pkg archive   Re: What kind of BSD license is meant?  Jens
Rehsack <> writes:  > Hubert Feyrer wrote: >> On Thu, 21 May
2009, Jens Rehsack wrote: >>> I'm currently updating
devel/p5-DATA-UUID >>> ( and there is as LICENSE simply >>>
named 'BSD' with the following text: >> ... >>> Which license is
meant? The original BSD license or the modified one? >> Why do
you think it's a BSD license at all - just by the name of the >>
file? > No, but by the statement in META.yml: > 'license: BSD'
there is explicit text.  You have to diff the text with existing
files to see if they match.  It makes no sense to look at the
operative properties and say it's sort of like a BSD license.
In this case, it's not a BSD license.  There's a notion that
permission is granted only to those who acknowledge lack of
warranty or something.  That's not intrinsically unreasonable,
but it's a huge legal change, from bare license to an attempt at
a contract license (which may or may not make  Just because
someone else put "license: BSD