Variant of IBM Public License

[Riley, Jason]

I second James comments. Templated versions of the main flavors of
licenses (MPL, BSD, GPL, ...) would, I suspect, satisfy the majority of
new open source projects (it would have my organization). If there was a
fast track to approval by using these it may also discourage the
unwitting adoption of licenses less true to the open source definition.

Jason Riley
Entessa, LLC


-----Original Message-----
From: James Harrell [mailto:jharrell at copernicusllc.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 11:43 AM
To: Chris Seitz; license-discuss at opensource.org
Subject: RE: Variant of IBM Public License


Chris,

If you do this, please instad of changing "IBM" to "NVIDIA", make it a
template. ie: [Insert Name Here], so other companies can also use the
template without going through the same process.

Regards,
James

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris Seitz [mailto:CSeitz at nvidia.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 12:52 PM
>To: license-discuss at opensource.org
>Subject: Variant of IBM Public License
>
>
>Hello:
>
>A little background, then my query...
>
>NVIDIA's developer support group creates tools and demonstration source

>code primarily aimed at game developers and others doing real-time 
>work. By and large, we publish source code to our SDK with very little 
>restriction (e.g. just keep the header/copyright notice).
>
>We've come to realize that for particular tool under development, the 
>community would be well served if we could provide them on an site, 
>such as sourceforge. Primarily to let developers modify and extend the 
>code at a rate faster than we can.
>
>I've been working with our legal department and they suggest taking the

>IBM public license, changing the "IBM" to "NVIDIA" and changing the 
>state from "New York" to "Delaware," and modifying the year of the 
>copyright.
>
>1) Will this require 2 months of review? Or would that be automatic. I 
>wouldn't want to hold up a release that long for something so seemingly

>minor.
>
>2) Is this copyright infringement w.r.t IBM?
>
>
>Thanks
>Chris
>Manager of Developer Tools, NVIDIA
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