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 -- Jason Shao Application Developer Rutgers University, Office of Instructional & Research Technology v. 732-445-8726 | f. 732-445-5539 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http:// jay.shao.org -- Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG with Altitude: June 24-27, 2007 in Denver, CO USA. Featuring keynotes by: Phil Windley, Matt Raible, Matt Asay Sessions on topics including: CAS, uPortal, Portlets, Sakai, Identity Management, and Open Source For more information & registration visit: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/07summer/index.html --- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
