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Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/licenses



  > Log Message:
  > Add original (4-clause) and modified (3-clause) BSD licenses.

  Is there any chance we could call these by the number of clauses, please?
  "modified" is such a general term.

I suppose it's possible, but it seems to be the standard term used to
refer to such licenses.  3-clause is also ambiguous although so far no
one has deleted only other than the advertising clause.

license.mk already had these terms, so my commit was just rectifying the
dangling pointer.  If we reach consensus on changing the terms and
renaming the files, that's ok.

There's a larger issue that when assigning a LICENSE tag to a package,
one has to diff the text of the package's license and the file that one
is pointing to.  So the name is actually not as important as it might
seem.

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