On 08 Mar 1999 20:23:32 -0500 
 "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:

 > The copyright morass is pretty bad. Frankly, I prefer it if people
 > just stick to using the standard BSD copyright, possibly without the
 > advertising clause. It is far simpler. If people want to write longer
 > and bigger copyrights, it makes life harder for everyone. I'd prefer
 > it if Greg or whomever just stuck to that license.

but is still causes an explosion of documentation just to deal with
clause 1 and 2.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>