Question on OSI position on BSD/MIT licenses

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at linpro.no
Mon Oct 1 06:14:25 UTC 2007


"Chris Travers" <chris.travers at gmail.com> writes:
> Would OSI's position be that projects using unapproved variants on these
> licenses for historical reasons (PostgreSQL for example uses an old-style
> BSD license with the advertising clause dropped) are not open source?

How about doing your own homework?  The "old-style BSD license with
the advertising clause dropped" is OSI-approved (under the name "New
BSD license").  So is the MIT license.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav
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Linpro AS - www.linpro.no



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