Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 20:52:11 +1000 From: Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org> To: Vitaly Magerya <vmagerya@gmail.com>, mexas@bris.ac.uk, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help categorise license Message-ID: <55B60D5B.8010902@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <55B5FBB3.8020805@gmail.com> References: <201507270859.t6R8xSL3093427@mech-as222.men.bris.ac.uk> <55B5FBB3.8020805@gmail.com>
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On 27/07/2015 7:36 PM, Vitaly Magerya wrote: > On 2015-07-27 11:59, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: >> I'm making a port of http://netlib.org/math. >> Their license looks like BSD2CLAUSE, but can >> somebody please check: >> http://netlib.org/math/license.htm > > That link should end with ".html", not ".htm". In any case, the license > seems identical to the 3-clause BSD [1,2] (note the "Neither the name of > ... may be used to endorse or promote ..." part). > > (Also note that our license framework should probably be scrapped > entirely, because it is ambiguous and undocumented). Or it could just be made less ambiguous and documented. Otherwise, we should scrap entirely all other things that are also ambiguous and undocumented. I imagine this will be a large list, and include large parts of the kernel.
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