[coreboot] YABEL: Yet another (legacy) BIOS Emulation Layer

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 27.11.2008 20:34, Pattrick Hueper wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is the copyright header:
>
> /******************************************************************************
>  * Copyright (c) 2004, 2008 IBM Corporation
>  * All rights reserved.
>  * This program and the accompanying materials
>  * are made available under the terms of the BSD License
>  * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
>  * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php
>  *
>  * Contributors:
>  *     IBM Corporation - initial implementation
>  *****************************************************************************/
>
> and this the license file:
>
> Copyright (c) 2004, 2008 IBM Corporation
> All rights reserved.
> Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
> modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
> met:
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> Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
> notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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> Neither the name of IBM nor the names of its contributors may be used
> to endorse or promote products derived from this software without
> specific prior written permission.
>
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>
>
> I'm afraid, that this is the licence with the advertising clause?
> (Redistribution in binary form...)?
>   

Fortunately, that license does not have an advertising clause.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_license has a bit more info on that.
The "Redistribution in binary form" clause is often mistaken for the
advertising clause. I'm guilty of mixing this up in the past.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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