That's not the 'BSD with advertising clause', that's the modern BSD
license, with a standard acknowledgement clause. The orginal advertisement
clause looks like:
(quoting from http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html)
3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the following acknowledgement:
Thisproduct includes software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors.
Unless that (or something like it) is in there, you're o.k. BTW, kudos
for thinking about licensing issues _before_ doing the work.
Ross
P.S. Which package are you looking at, BTW?
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 01:17:39PM -0500, Doug McNaught wrote:
> I may have some spare hacking time coming up, and I was thinking about
> adding a PL (Scheme) to PostgreSQL. I've found some code out there
> for a small Scheme interpreter, but it appears to be licensed under a
> "BSD with advertising clause" license (as opposed to the "modern BSD"
> license of PostgreSQL). The license text includes:
>
> Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
> notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
>
> Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
> notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
> the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
> distribution.
>
> Would it be a problem to include this code in PG?
>
> -Doug
> --
> Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.
> --T. J. Jackson, 1863
>
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