For Approval: BSD License, PostgreSQL Variant

[Tzeng, Nigel H.]

I would personally like either of Chris' or Michael's suggestions.  I have not asked that we submit our open source license (MIT with extra disclaimers) under the assumption that it would fail the license proliferation threshold but if there were an option to submit a license as a MIT variant and not contribute to LP I'd try to get the ball rolling in that direction.
 
It sure would be nice to say "Yes, we're OSI approved.  You can find us on the MIT variant page."
 
As to why I don't ask that we release under an already OSI approved license the extra disclaimers and clarifications to the base MIT license I presume were viewed by our legal department to be highly desirable/necessary.  I can make the case that OSI approval is worth reworking the license to be reusable by removing the "vanity" bits but not likely that the extra disclaimers are unnecessary for us.
 
Of course, avoiding the need to mention another university at all might also be helpful. Perhaps we can re-word to be an ISC variant. :)
 
I've included the JHU/APL license below.  It is not submitted for approval (not that its in the right format anyway, nor am I likely empowered to) but discussion as to whether it would meet the metric as a variant or diverges too much.  I can ask that it be officially submitted if desired.
 
Regards,
 
Nigel
 
ObDis:  Speaking for myself and not for The Johns Hopkins University
 
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