QuantLib License 1.0 submitted for OSD branding

[Karsten M. Self]

on Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 07:29:12PM -0800, David Johnson (david at usermode.org) wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 January 2002 03:20 am, Ferdinando Ametrano wrote:
> 
> > To streamline OSI approval I changed the QuantLib license so that the first
> > 3 paragraphs are now identical to the MIT license. The updated version of
> > the QuantLib License (http://quantlib.org/license.html) is:
> > ...
> > The rationale of the last 2 paragraphs is to state the authors and
> > copyright holders names and to avoid the usage of their names in
> > advertisement without prior written authorization.
> 
> My suggestion is to simply the the BSD license as is. The license 
> holders' names should already be in the copyright line. If "QuantLib Group" 
> is not the legal copyright holder, then you need to change it. If it is the 
> legal copyright holder, then the names of the group can be placed in an 
> "AUTHORS" file.
> 
> Although the standard MIT license doesn't have anything about
> advertisements or promotions, the new BSD license does. So just use
> the BSD license.  Or you could also use the Apache license by
> replacing "Apache" with "QuantLib Group".

Note that the Apache license isn't GPL compatible.  I'm not sure if this
is or isn't a goal of the QuantLib project, but the issue should be
considered.

Thanks to Ferdinando for his changes.

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