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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