license change (all contributors please follow up)

[Havoc Pennington]

On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 09:39, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> 
> Out of curiosity (I might have missed the original thread on this) why
> is the three clause BSD license used instead of the two-clause or
> MIT/X11 license?  Anyone getting the software can opt to use the LGPL
> license and use the organizations/contributors in advertising under that
> license anyhow, so I don't see the clause adding anything of value
> except a bad taste in some people's mouths who don't like that third
> clause.  ;-)

Ah, I couldn't find the X one since it was listed as "MIT" - OK, so
let's use this.

Havoc

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