I'm a little uncomfortable touching the "historic" licenses, but given how many variants there are of this already, and the genuine practical costs of treating these differently, I think the change is warranted, and I have made it. Thanks, Gerv and Engel.
Luis On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Engel Nyst <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/07/2013 12:35 PM, Gervase Markham wrote: > >> I want to have another go at gaining consensus on making tweaks to the >> OSI's presentation of the 3-clause BSD licence >> <http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause> to reduce license >> proliferation in the long term. >> >> > Thank you! I also hope this will reduce time consumed unnecessarily for > projects. > > > Proposal: replace "<ORGANIZATION>" with "copyright holder" on the OSI's >> 3-Clause page, and update the surrounding text to explain the situation. >> That update would be in a similar vein to the existing explanatory >> sentence: >> >> "In the original BSD license, both occurrences of the phrase >> "COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS" in the disclaimer read "REGENTS >> AND CONTRIBUTORS". >> >> I would argue that the above sentence also establishes a precedent that >> it's OK for the OSI copy of a historical license to be genericized in >> this non-parameterized way. >> >> > I think the page would look in practice like the following text. Written > quickly to visualize the proposal, in case it helps. > > > <OWNER> = Regents of University of California > <YEAR> = 1998 > > In the original BSD license, the occurrence of "copyright holder" in the > 3rd clause read "ORGANIZATION", placeholder for "University of California". > Both occurrences of the phrase "COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS" in the > disclaimer read "REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS". > > Here is the license template: > > Copyright (c) <YEAR>, <OWNER> > All rights reserved. > > Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without > modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: > > 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, > this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. > > 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. > > 3. Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its > contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this > software without specific prior written permission. > > THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS > IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, > THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR > PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR > CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, > EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, > PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; > OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, > WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR > OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF > ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. > > > _______________________________________________ > License-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss >
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