[jdev] Jabberd 1.4.x license concerns/questions

[Ralph Giles]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 08:35:15PM +0200, Tijl Houtbeckers wrote:

> The GPL license prohibits any restrictions other than those of the GPL  
> license itself.

Off topic, but I've always been confused why the advertising clause was 
considered an unacceptable restriction, while the MIT/BSD requirement to 
reproduce the license itself was not. Can someone clarify the 
distinction?

 -r