For Approval: The Simplified BSD License
Chuck Swiger
chuck at codefab.com
Sat Sep 8 14:23:33 UTC 2007
Donovan Hawkins wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>> ...and some BSD licensors are unwilling to use MIT...
>
> Why is that exactly? The proliferation of BSD-like licenses is enormous,
> and I don't quite understand the reason for it when so many of the
> licenses are so similar.
You're certainly right-- the last time I checked, there were over thirty minor
textual variants of the BSD license in the standard C library sources.
However, all of these variants are simple, permissive licenses which are
compatible with each other and all (or pretty much all) of the OSI-approved
licenses, so this type of license proliferation doesn't seem to be doing any
real harm in the way that having less permissive licenses interact might.
--
-Chuck
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