foremost legality (GPL vs Public Domain)

[Linus Walleij]

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:

> So it's even less restricted than the BSD licenses - you don't even
> _have_ to provide attribution (though it's still nice to do so)?

Side note: the attribution clause (advertising clause) has been dropped 
from BSD. That is why it is now compatible with the GPL. GPL does not 
allow attribution clauses.

See further:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_license#The_advertising_clause

Linus