On Tue, 27 Nov 2012, Isaac Dunham wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:53:59 -0500 (EST)
> Robert Tomsick <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 27 Nov 2012, Isaac Dunham wrote:
>>
>>> FYI: 3-clause BSD is MIT + "Binary distributions must include this
>>> copyright notice in accompanying documentation" (clause 2). 2-clause BSD
>>> drops the restriction on implying the endorsement of the copyright
>>> holder (clause 3), rather than the restriction on documentation
>> [...]
>>> X.org does include some BSD-licensed code, and it would seem
>>> _to_me_ that that would be reasonable with one limitation: If
>>> you are going to add any BSD-licensed code, you *must* also
>>> add the copyright information to a *single* file such as
>>> cde/copyright.
>>
>> Ok, so to confirm: 2-clause BSD would be OK if the copyright
>> for the file in question is listed in cde/copyright?
>
> Jon, what do you think?
>
Well right now it's a little late in the evening for me to look at
these issues in too much detail, but I do not want to add special
stuff to cde/copyright for other licenses relating to added code.
The main benefit to us for MIT is that we do not need to worry about
that crap - you really cannot get much 'free-er' than MIT licensing.
So - my view: If it's going to be added to CDE, it *must* be under MIT
terms only.
>> The code I'm thinking of submitting is a stand-alone thing that
>> depends only on Motif, so it wouldn't involve any intermingling
>> with CDE code (it could be integrated later, of course, but as
>> it currently stands it's just a small
>> standalone Motif runner that I've been using with CDE locally.)
>>
> Out of curiousity (not trying to argue against including it),
> 1. What's the benefit of using this tool?
> 2. What's the benefit of including it in CDE?
> (I'm suspecting that a small standalone tool might get more
> distribution outside the CDE source, for dl size)
> 3. Who holds copyright on it?
>
Yes - especially to number 3. And why not MIT, at least if it's to be
included with CDE?
[...]
--
Jon Trulson
"Oh the land of the free, and the home of the brave.
Are you heaven on Earth, or the gloom of the grave."
-- Iron Sky
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