the X-Oz license

[Ernest Prabhakar]

Hi Sue,


On Mar 2, 2004, at 3:50 PM, selussos wrote:

> Hi
> I would like to submit the X-Oz license for OSI compliancy.  I've 
> written the following up per your
> request on the site.

Thanks for the detailed summary.  Could you perhaps comment on why you 
are not just explicitly using the Apache 1.1 license with name changes? 
   In most cases, the benefit of reusing an existing license outweighs 
the benefits of any minor improvements in clarity, in terms of 
developer comprehensibility.

-- Ernie P.
IANAL, TINLA, etc., etc. and so forth

>
>
> First, the license in question, which we have termed the X-Oz license 
> can be found in full at: http://www.x-oz.com/licenses.html.
>
> The first part of the license (the permission notice) is taken from 
> the XFree86 1.0 license.
>
>     Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person 
> obtaining a
>     copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 
> "Software"),
>     to deal in 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:
>
> The first three condition clauses are taken from the Apache 1.1 
> license, where we substituted our name for the ASF.
>
>     1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 
> notice, this list of conditions, and the following disclaimer
>
>     2.    Redistributions in binary form 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
>
>     3. The end-user documentation included with the redistribution, if 
> any, must include the following acknowledgment:
>
>             "This product includes software developed by X-Oz 
> Technologies (http://www.x-oz.com/)."
>
>             Alternately, this acknowledgment may appear in the 
> software itself, if and wherever such third-party acknowledgments 
> normally appear.
>
>
>
> The fourth condition is from the XFree86 1.0 license, again with the 
> appropriate nominal-only substitutions.
>
>   4. Except as contained in this notice, the name of X-Oz Technologies
>      shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale,
>      use or other dealings in this Software without prior written
>      authorization from X-Oz Technologies.
>
>
>
> And finally our disclaimer notice is also from the Apache 1.1 license.
>
>   THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED
>   WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
>   MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.
>   IN NO EVENT SHALL X-OZ TECHNOLOGIES OR ITS CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR
>   ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 
> CONSEQUENTIAL
>   DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE
>   GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
>   INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER
>   IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR
>   OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN
>   IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE
>
>
>
> Best Regards.
>
> Sue
>
> P.S. The Apache 1.1 is also on the OSI site as OSI-compliant, 
> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/apachepl.php
>
> PPS I am subscribed to this list ;-)
>
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> I keep on pushing. — Jacques Cousteau
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