Hi I'm the maintainer of the Octave-Forge project http://octave.sourceforge.net/ which is a loosely organized collection of functions for GNU Octave. Because of this, each file has its own license. I'm trying to organize this properly and facing a problem with the multiple BSD licenses.
The FreeBSD license seems to exist in 2 forms, with and without a disclaimer about views and opinions expressed in the software. However the FSF list of licenses has both of them under the same name: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#FreeBSD links to http://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=License:FreeBSD which displays the disclaimer http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#FreeBSDDL links to http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-doc-license.html which does not displays the disclaimer I was reading about the subject and apparently, the OSI recognized both of them, calling the version without the disclaimer, simplified BSD license. In Octave Forge we do have some code under such license but are planning to adopt http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses as the list of allowed licenses. I believe this license also belongs to list of GPL compatible, there's simply no FSF-given name for it. Could you please update the list and advise a name to avoid confusions? Thanks in advance, Carnë Draug ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WINDOWS 8 is here. Millions of people. Your app in 30 days. Visit The Windows 8 Center at Sourceforge for all your go to resources. http://windows8center.sourceforge.net/ join-generation-app-and-make-money-coding-fast/ _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
