1July 22, 1999
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3To All Licensees, Distributors of Any Version of BSD:
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5As you know, certain of the Berkeley Software Distribution ("BSD") source code files
6require that further distributions of products containing all or portions of the
7software, acknowledge within their advertising materials that such products contain
8software developed by UC Berkeley and its contributors.
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10Specifically, the provision reads:
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12      * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
13      *    must display the following acknowledgement:
14      *    This product includes software developed by the University of
15      *    California, Berkeley and its contributors.
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17Effective immediately, licensees and distributors are no longer required to include
18the acknowledgement within advertising materials. Accordingly, the foregoing paragraph
19of those BSD Unix files containing it is hereby deleted in its entirety.
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21William Hoskins
22Director, Office of Technology Licensing
23University of California, Berkeley "
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