For approval: a) MirOS Licence Template b) OpenBSD license template (2nd RESEND) (was Re: ISC copyright for BIND) (was Re: For approval: MirOS Licence Template (and question about others))

[Thorsten Glaser]

Second RESEND - looks like posting to the gmane interface doesn't work;
this time trying direct eMail to the list.

Zvezdan Petkovic dixit:

>> On a related notice, did my other mails not get through?

>I didn't receive any.

Okay, I'll resend them hereby, please process ;-)
(once we'll receive the Okay from OSI, I'll provide you
 with the final version as HTML and ASCII, as requested)




Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:02:49 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: For approval: MirOS Licence Template (and question about others)

John Cowan dixit:

>Thorsten Glaser scripsit:
>
>> With due respect, I would like the OSI to consider to
>> certify the "MirOS Licence Template" as shown on

>> http://mirbsd.bsdadvocacy.org/cvs.cgi/~checkout~/src/share/misc/licence.template?rev=HEAD

This will be updated in a few hours with the full file by a cronjob.
I've attached the fixed version.

>In my judgment, this license is obviously Open Source (and Free)
>and should be fast-tracked for OSI approval.

Thanks.

>A few typos:  s/publically/publicly, s/commata/commas.  In
>addition, there are some bad hyphenations: re-tained, not retai-ned;
>addition-al, not additio-nal; temp-late, not templa-te.

Good to hear that; fixed them except "commata" which I do want to
retain because the word has a Latin origin. (Shouldn't matter to
the discussion though, because it's in the explanatory text.)

>> a) any derivate of the original UCB/BSD licence, with
>>    clauses left out, or wording slightly changed (e.g.
>>    by putting in one's name)
>
>In general, no, except that you can replace ORGANIZATION, OWNER, and YEAR
>with the correct values.  But omitting clauses, no.  The canonical version
>for OSI purposes is at http://opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php .

Why? It's pretty common to leave out clause 3; most also leave out clause
4; some leave out clauses 2 and 3 but not 4 (I've seen that when checking
for MirPorts), and minimal changes to the disclaimer "should" not be too
worrysome.

Of couse, if that's OSI policy, we'll have to live with it; in that case
I'll pick out the special cases and mail them.

>> b) the following:
>> 
>> # Copyright (c) 2003 ...
>> # Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
>> # purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
>> # copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
>> # (disclaimer from BSD licence)
>> 
>> (see http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/share/misc/license.template?rev=HEAD
>
>This is not the BSD license, but it is IMO Open Source, and should be
>assigned a name and then fast-tracked for approval.

The name is (new) "OpenBSD license template". I don't believe they
have got versions on them; for the "MirOS licence template" (notice
English spelling, not American) we're using the RCS revision number.

Thanks,
//mirabile



Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 14:39:00 +0000 (UTC)
From: Thorsten Glaser <tg-QuxvC+XXJv6ELgA04lAiVw at public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: For approval: MirOS Licence Template

Dixi:

>>I've attached the fixed version.

>Here you are.

I'd like to know about this 'fast-track for approval'
process a little bit more.

When can we (the MirOS Project and the OpenBSD project)
expect a decision or an answer? (I'm just asking about
approximate values, mostly for curiosity (although our
next release is due in about 1-2 months).)

bye,
//mirabile



Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:59:56 +0000 (UTC)
From: Thorsten Glaser <tg-QuxvC+XXJv6ELgA04lAiVw at public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: For approval: MirOS Licence Template (and question about others)

Russell Nelson dixit:

>Yes, you have to live with it.  It's a certification mark and we have
>to control how it's used.  If we lose or give up that control, then
>it's not a certification mark anymore.

I've got absolutely no problem with actually doing that, I was
more like _exploring_ what I have got to do for the certification
mark, and trying to narrow it down to as few actual work (for all
of us) as possible.

But the argumentation has a point, so it's settled now.

bye,
//mirabile
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