For Approval: The Simplified BSD License

[Matthew Flaschen]

Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> 4) This license is already in widespread use by (at least) the FreeBSD
>    and OpenBSD projects, as well as offshoots of those projects
>    (e.g. OpenSSH), and other unrelated projects (e.g. Varnish).
> 
>    The advantage of this license over the full BSD license is that it is
>    unambiguously compatible with the GPL, as the no-endorsement clause
>    could be regarded as a "further restriction on the recipients'
>    exercise of rights" preventing BSD-licensed software from being
>    combined with GPL software.

The license is clearly compliant with the OSD.  I still find its purpose
somewhat duplicative of the MIT/X11 license, but given that Simplified
BSD is already in use, and some BSD licensors are unwilling to use MIT,
I support its approval.

Matt Flaschen