For Approval: BSD License (with express disclaimer of noninfringement added)
Sarah Pritchard
sarahp at ucar.edu
Mon Aug 7 20:43:01 UTC 2006
To Whom it May Concern:
On August 2, 2006, I submitted a "Legal analysis of license for
approval" to license-approval at opensource.org for our license, entitled
"BSD License (with express disclaimer of noninfringement added)." This
email is intended to address all other information requirements for OSI
approval of a license. //
* The existing OSI-approved BSD license is most similar to our
proposed license, but the BSD license will not suffice because one
of our contributors insists upon an express disclaimer of
noninfringement. For this reason, we have modified the BSD
license by adding the word, "NONINFRINGMENT" after the word,
"MERCHANTABILITY" in the first sentence of the final paragraph of
the license.
*
Redistribution, with or without modification, is permitted, so
long as copyright recognized, liability disclaimed and contributor
names not used to endorse. We are unaware of licenses that are
entirely incompatible with out proposed license, but there may be
some such licenses.
/ /
* The plain text version of our proposed license is reprinted below,
in its entirety:
*OWNER = the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR),
with contributions from Ohio State University and Silicon Graphics (the
"Contributors")
YEAR = 2006*
* *
*A. VAPOR software - Copyright (c) 2006 UCAR. All rights reserved.*
* *
*B. Contributions to VAPOR software:
1. OSU Flow Integration Library - Copyright (c) 2006 Ohio State
University. All rights reserved.
2. GLEW software - Copyright (c) 2002-2006 Silicon Graphics, Inc. All
Rights Reserved.*
* *
*Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:*
* *
* * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
notices, as included in the source code, this list of conditions
and the following disclaimer.
* 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.
* Neither the name of the University Corporation for Atmospheric
Research nor the names of its Contributors may be used to endorse
or promote products derived from this software without specific
prior written permission.
*
* *
*THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS
IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED
TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, NONINFRINGEMENT AND
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
COPYRIGHT OWNER OR 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.*
* *
--
Confidential Communication
If this communication was received in error please disregard and delete immediately.
Sarah Forsythe Pritchard
Associate General Counsel
UCAR/NCAR
1850 Table Mesa Drive
Boulder, CO 80305
303-497-8564 (voice)
303-497-8501 (fax)
sarahp at ucar.edu
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/attachments/20060807/28d479e8/attachment.html>
More information about the License-discuss
mailing list