I'm +1 Paul
On 2011-05-10, at 11:28 AM, Tim Schaub wrote: > Hey- > > We've had discussions previously about adopting a license that has > more widespread use than our modified BSD license. The motivation for > making a change is increase the likelihood that others can use > OpenLayers without having to direct specific licensing questions to a > very small pool of people (perhaps a pool of one). > > The 2-clause BSD, referred to as "Simplified BSD License" or "FreeBSD > License" looks good to me > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#2-clause). > > This license differs from our current license > (http://svn.openlayers.org/trunk/openlayers/license.txt) in a number > of ways: > > 1) The 2-clause license omits the non-endorsement clause. Our current > license says that nobody can use the OpenLayers name to endorse > products that use OpenLayers without specific written permission. To > my knowledge, we have given specific written permission once. There > are enough other uses of the OpenLayers name in promoting software > that uses OpenLayers that I think we are not going to enforce this > non-endorsement clause. > > 2) The 2-clause license doesn't contain any language about patent > rights. Our current language about patent rights is not included in > other common forms of the BSD (OpenLayers and FeatureServer are the > two uses I could quickly find). Removing this specific language would > align our license with licenses used by many other projects - reducing > the chance of licensing questions that are specific to our project. > > I'm open to hearing proposals to use another license. > > I'm +1 on changing to the 2-clause BSD. > > Tim > > -- > Tim Schaub > OpenGeo http://opengeo.org/ > Expert service straight from the developers. > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > d...@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-dev __________________________________________ Paul Spencer Chief Technology Officer DM Solutions Group Inc http://research.dmsolutions.ca/
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