On Jun 4, 2007, at 2:52 PM, John Lewis wrote:

> For the record, uPortal is distributed under the terms of the BSD  
> License. (the "new/modified" version, not the original one that had  
> a lame advertising clause).  This fact appears to have been lost in  
> the tribal knowledge of JA-SIG.  While the uPortal license does not  
> explicitly state that this is the BSD license (which is normal), a  
> word-for-word comparison of the uPortal License and the BSD License  
> shows that this is clearly the case.  So, we need to clear up a  
> long standing misconception:  uPortal is in fact distributed under  
> a license that is approved both by the OSI as an "open" license and  
> by the FSF as a "free" license (and is entitled to all the rights  
> and privileges thereof!)  We need to dispel this long-standing myth  
> -- I'm only sorry it took me so long to research this fact.  At a  
> minimum, someone should updated the license page on the uPortal web  
> site to indicate that this is in fact the New BSD license and  
> provide a link to the appropriate OSI page.

Excellent news and thanks for the detective work for the  
clarification :)

Jason

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