[License-discuss] Boilerplate license text for permissive licenses?

[Luis Villa]

Possibly relevant/of interest to those following this thread, from a
student of Daniel's:

http://turingmachine.org/~dmg/temp/trevor_BSD_report_2012_12_23.pdf

I have not read it all yet, but it looks useful for informing our
discussion of how to clean up/further standardize the BSD/MIT/X11
variants, based on an analysis of 70K versions of the statements, as
found in Debian.

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:28 AM, D M German <dmg at uvic.ca> wrote:
>  Gervase Markham twisted the bytes to say:
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> Hi Gervase,
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> Why don't you try the tool we developed. It is a bit hacky, but it will
> help you do what you are doing automatically.
>
> http://github.com/dmgerman/ninka
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> If you run the tool, make sure it is a  copy of the code. It will
> create, for each file you specify in its command line (I recommend you
> use xargs to run it) several files. The ones you are looking for are:
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> *license, *.senttok and *.goodsent
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> they will abstract the information you are looking for.
>
> As I mentioned in the previous message, what is the code you are looking
> at? I can run the tool myself and give you the resulting data.
>
> -daniel
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>  Gervase> On 26/11/12 23:44, Luis Villa wrote:
>  >> I wonder if there is an easy way to visualize the various changes you
>  >> have in your data set, to see where people agreed/disagreed/edited,
>  >> outside the obvious changes. Daniel German, cc'd, may have already
>  >> tackled this, or have other ideas along these lines.
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>  Gervase> I don't have an automated way. I gave myself 10 minutes to do it by
>  Gervase> hand, and the results are as follows:
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>  Gervase> <ORGANIZATION>:
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>  Gervase> * "the author"
>  Gervase> * "the above-listed copyright holder(s)"
>  Gervase> * "Yahoo! Inc.", followed by "nor the names of YUI's contributors"
>  Gervase> * "the copyright holder"
>  Gervase> * "Google"
>  Gervase> * "the Eclipse Foundation, Inc."
>  Gervase> * "the University"
>  Gervase> * "Google Inc."
>  Gervase> * "the Xiph.org Foundation nor Pinknoise Productions Ltd"
>  Gervase> * "TransGaming Inc., Google Inc., 3DLabs Inc. Ltd.,"
>  Gervase> * "the David Beazley or Dabeaz LLC" (!)
>  Gervase> * "the Jython Developers"
>  Gervase> * "KTH"
>  Gervase> * "The Android Open Source Project"
>  Gervase> * Rewording: "The names of the authors may not be used to endorse..."
>  Gervase> * Rewording: "The names of the author may not be used to endorse..."
>  Gervase> * "David Young"
>  Gervase> * "the project"
>  Gervase> * "Cisco Systems, Inc."
>  Gervase> * "the libjpeg-turbo Project"
>  Gervase> * "the Motorola, Inc." (!)
>  Gervase> * "Adobe Systems, Network Resonance"
>  Gervase> * "Parakey Inc"
>  Gervase> * "Apple Computer, Inc. ("Apple")"
>  Gervase> * "the copyright holders"
>  Gervase> * "Network Resonance, Inc."
>  Gervase> * "the company"
>  Gervase> * "Redis"
>  Gervase> * "Apple Computer, Inc. ("Apple") or The Mozilla Foundation ("Mozilla")"
>  Gervase> * "The NetBSD Foundation"
>  Gervase> * "the psutil authors"
>  Gervase> * "the Institute"
>  Gervase> * "the Eclipse Foundation, Inc."
>  Gervase> * "the Cisco Systems, Inc." (!)
>  Gervase> * "the author(s)"
>  Gervase> * the Xiph.org Foundation"
>  Gervase> ... and several more.
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>  Gervase> Disclaimer section:
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>  Gervase> Much less variation here, the first two being by far the most common:
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>  Gervase> * "THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS"
>  Gervase> * "THE AUTHOR"
>  Gervase> * "THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS"
>  Gervase> * "Google Inc."
>  Gervase> * "KTH AND ITS CONTRIBUTORS"
>  Gervase> * "The Android Open Source Project"
>  Gervase> * "THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS"
>  Gervase> * "DAVID YOUNG"
>  Gervase> * "THE PROJECT AND CONTRIBUTORS"
>  Gervase> * "APPLE AND ITS CONTRIBUTORS"
>  Gervase> * "SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC."
>  Gervase> * "APPLE, MOZILLA AND THEIR CONTRIBUTORS"
>  Gervase> * "THE NETBSD FOUNDATION, INC"
>  Gervase> * "THE INSTITUTE AND CONTRIBUTORS"
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>  Gervase> As far as I can tell, other than the substitution of names on
>  Gervase> occasion, the disclaimer is otherwise identical. And there is very
>  Gervase> little variation in the other text too.
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>  Gervase> Bullets:
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>  Gervase> * None
>  Gervase> * "1."
>  Gervase> * "a)"
>  Gervase> * "-"
>  Gervase> * "*"
>  Gervase> * In one case, 1), 2) and nothing!
>  Gervase> * In another, 1), 2) and "-"!
>  Gervase> * In another, nothing, nothing and "-"!
>  Gervase> * In another, all the paras are run together
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>  Gervase> Numbers seem to be the most common.
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>  Gervase> Gerv
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