Bug#660451: [licensecheck] misdetect BSD-4-clause license as BSD-3-clause

Dmitry Smirnov onlyjob at member.fsf.org
Fri Oct 12 05:48:58 UTC 2012


The license in question have exactly one (first) clause of BSD family 
licenses.

Parahraphs 2,3,4 are different and I can't tell if some of them may be 
considered as legal equivalents to any clauses of BSD-2-clause, BSD-3-clause 
or BSD-4-clause licenses.

Actually paragraphs 2 and 3 are taken from zlib license:

	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib_License

Therefore I think it is not a BSD license at all. I'm not sure how it should 
be called.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry.
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