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Xylakant on March 5, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: GnuTLS considered harmful (2008)

4-clause BSD is actually the original BSD license, even though it's not very common nowadays. According to wikipedia, it was first used in 1990 or before, so roundabout the same time as the GPL v1 (1989). It's certainly not self-written.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#4-clause_license_...

dllthomas on March 5, 2014 [–]

The principle of "pick from among the most common" still holds, though, of which drafting your own license is the most extreme violation.

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