The confusion I still have is when the Kepler license says "Kepler Project
keep its copyright"

What is "its"?

Is "it" referring to a copyright over the actual code base?  Is "it"
referring to a copyright over what exactly?


On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Yuri Takhteyev <y...@sims.berkeley.edu>wrote:

> > No, the Kepler license is not the same the MIT license.
> > Specifically, the Kepler license added:  " Kepler is not in the public
> > domain and the Kepler Project keep its copyright."
> > Which is the cause for all of my questions.
>
> That's not a part of the license - just an explanation. There is,
> however, a copyright notice which is the legal equivalent of that
> sentence.
>
> The MIT license is usually combined with a copyright notice. One of
> the requirements that the MIT license imposes is in fact that this
> copyright notice is preserved. The same is true for BSD, GPL, and
> pretty much any other commonly used free software license.
>
>  - yuri
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