Discuss: UoI/NCSA Open Source License

[John Taylor McEntire]

[ Please discuss this license.  -russ ]

To Whom It May Concern: 
 
We consider the Open Source Initiative (OSI) an important leader in the
software community and as such would like to comply under OSI standards
for software that we determine to put out to the community in open
source.  
 
Included as text to this e-mail is the University of Illinois/NCSA Open
Source License for your review and consideration as an approved OSI open
source license.  This license is a combination of the already-approved
MIT and BSD licenses.  However, the combined text is more explicit
regarding the granted rights than either of the MIT or BSD licenses
alone and therefore is easier to understand and more comprehensive.
Thus, there's a reason to use it rather than one of its two
predecessors.  
 
Your timely consideration of this request for acceptance as an OSI
approved license is greatly appreciated.
 
Thank you for your consideration.
 
Most sincerely,
 
John McEntire
Assistant Director - Copyright/Software
Office of Technology Management
 
 
University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
Copyright (c) <Year>    <Owner Organization Name> 
All rights reserved.
Developed by:              <Name of Development Group>
                                    <Name of Institution>
                                    <URL for Development
Group/Institution>
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal with the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:
*        Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers.
*        Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above
copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimers
in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
distribution.
*        Neither the names of <Name of Development Group, Name of
Institution>, nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse
or promote products derived from this Software without specific prior
written permission.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CONTRIBUTORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR
ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS WITH THE SOFTWARE.
 
In our case, the following applies:
<Owner Organization Name> = The Board of Trustees of the University of
Illinois
<Name of Development Group> = (ex.) National Center for Supercomputing
Applications (NCSA)
<Name of Institution> = University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 
 
Office of Technology Management
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
308 Ceramics Building, MC-243
105 South Goodwin Avenue
Urbana, Illinois  61801-2901
(217) 333-3715 Direct
(217) 265-5530 Fax
jmcentir at uiuc.edu E-mail
 

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