[License-discuss] BSD 3-clause and copyright notices

[Simon Phipps]

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Zluty Sysel <zluty.sysel at gmail.com> wrote:

> The problem comes with acknowledging the usage of this codebase in
> binary distributions. Some of the future users of this source code are
> also our current customers, and some of these customers do not want to
> reveal that they are using our particular libraries for their (binary
> distributed) product. Given this, let me rephrase: Can we allow these
> customers not to reproduce the BSD license text even if our AUTHORS
> file contains names and email addresses of people outside of our
> company? Because that's really all we're after here, allowing certain
> customers not to have to mention that they are using our libraries.
>

I would not recommend changing the license itself as that would require OSI
approval as a new license, but if that is the only issue, and reproducing
the copyright notices of later contributors who do not also make a waiver
is not really the obstacle, perhaps you could add an additional notice
along the lines of
"As a special additional right, <$company> grants all licensees of its
copyright under the above license the right to distribute binary versions
without reproducing their copyright notices per clause 2. We also encourage
(but do not require) later contributors to make the same waiver."

IANAL, TINLA etc.

S.
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