NCSA Open Source License

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Thu Jan 17 00:47:57 UTC 2002


Bruce Perens <bruce at perens.com>:
> There are currently at least 4 variations of the MIT license on
> OSI's accepted list: MIT, BSD, Apache, X.com. I don't want to
> suggest that NCSA petition OSI to accept yet another
> variation. While OSI and friends have given up on the prospect of
> generating a unified Open Source license, it appears that it would
> at least be possible for OSI and the community to drive unification
> of the MIT variants into a single license with two optional
> portions: the generally-deprecated advertising clause used by
> Apache, and the choice-of-jurisdiction used by X.com .

That would be three licenses, I think.
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