Add three slides about the BSDL, GPL, and the differences between the

two.

Taken from /src/COPYRIGHT and from Nik's excellent slides from his
Leeds talk in 2001.

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+<!-- $FreeBSD$ -->
+
+<foilgroup id="freebsd-linux">
+  <title>Differences from Linux</title>
+
+  <foil id="freebsd-linux-bsdl"><title>FreeBSD Licensing Model</title>
+
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>FreeBSD distributed under "2 clause" BSD license</listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+
+    <para>Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or
+      without modification, are permitted provided that the following
+      conditions are met:</para>
+
+    <para>1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above
+      copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
+      disclaimer.</para>
+
+    <para>2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above
+      copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
+      disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided
+      with the distribution.</para>
+  </foil>
+
+  <foil id="freebsd-linux-bsdl-explained"><title>FreeBSD Licensing Model</title>
+
+    <itemizedlist>
+      <listitem>Don't claim that you wrote the code</listitem>
+      <listitem>Don't blame us if the code doesn't work</listitem>
+      <listitem>Apart from that, do anything you want with the code</listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+
+  </foil>
+
+  <foil id="freebsd-linux-gpl-explained"><title>The GPL and BSD Licenses</title>
+    <itemizedlist>
+
+      <listitem>The GPL mandates that source code be disclosed</listitem>
+
+      <listitem>The BSD License allows source code changes to be kept
+	secret</listitem>
+
+      <listitem>GPL is often categorised as "Copyleft", as distinct
+	from "Copyright"</listitem>
+
+      <listitem>If you like that nomenclature, you may think of the
+	BSD License is "Copycentre".  We actively encourage third
+	parties to use the source code.</listitem>
+
+      <listitem>Donating changes back is purely at the discretion of
+        the party making the changes.</listitem>
+
+    </itemizedlist>
+  </foil>
+</foilgroup>