Seeking input on license of existing project

[Ernest Prabhakar]

Hi Christian,

Almost like I just told the ECL fellow - isn't this the same as Apache 
1.0?

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-1.0

What *is* our policy on licenses that are just name changes?

-- Ernie P.
IANAL, TINLA, etc., etc.


On Jun 7, 2004, at 12:16 PM, Christian Gunning wrote:

> The license of this project is not necessarily under control of the 
> developer,
> an employee at an academic institution. We're trying to move the 
> project over to
> sourceforge, but we're not sure how "OSI kosher" this license is.
>
> The parts I'm unsure about are #3 (advertising materials) and #5 
> (attribution).
>   Your feedback is much appreciated.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> primer3 release 0.9  (distribution 0_9_test)
>
>  Copyright (c) 1996,1997,1998
>         Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. All rights 
> reserved.
>
> Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
> modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are 
> met:
>
> 1.      Redistributions must reproduce the above copyright notice, this
> list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the  documentation
> and/or other materials provided with the distribution.  
> Redistributions of
> source code must also reproduce this information in the source code 
> itself.
>
> 2.      If the program is modified, redistributions must include a 
> notice
> (in the same places as above) indicating that the redistributed 
> program is
> not identical to the version distributed by Whitehead Institute.
>
> 3.      All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this
> software  must display the following acknowledgment:
>         This product includes software developed by the
>         Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.
>
> 4.      The name of the Whitehead Institute may not be used to endorse 
> or
> promote products derived from this software without specific prior 
> written
> permission.
>
> 5.      We also request that use of this software be cited in 
> publications as
>
> Steve Rozen, Helen J. Skaletsky (1996,1997,1998)
>    Primer3. Code available at
>    http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/genome_software/other/primer3.html
>
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