License committee report for March 2008

Russ Nelson nelson at crynwr.com
Thu Mar 13 20:27:22 UTC 2008


The board voted to accept the report with one change:

We request that the NTP License be changed so that the license (as a
license model) uses generic language for the copyright holder (Mills)
and trademark holder (UDel).  Obviously the NTP License as used by NTP
should continue to say Mills and UDel.

Thus, the AGPL and ISC Licenses are approved, and will be added to the
opensource.org listing shortly.


Russ Nelson writes:
 > I'm the chair of the license approval committee.  This is my report
 > for the current set of licenses under discussion.  This finishes up
 > the licenses submitted to license-discuss.
 > 
 > Title: GNU Affero General Public License 
 > Submission: 
 >   http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:59:apmcgapodhnnfmpgpnmb
 > License: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/agpl-3.0.html
 > Comments: Cowan, Moen approve, no one disapproves
 > Recommend: approval
 > 
 > --
 > 
 > Title: Anonymous Hero Public License
 > Submission: 
 >   http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:79:200802:lhgknjghckjgokjdimhi
 > Comments: Withdrawn by submittor:
 >   http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:84:200802:lhgknjghckjgokjdimhi
 > Recommend: no action necessary
 > 
 > --
 > 
 > Title: NTP License
 > Submission:
 >   http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:msp:88:jagefaegchlhcaopkmbj
 > License: http://ntp.bkbits.net:8080/ntp-stable/html/copyright.html
 > Comments: Ernie suggests it be a modification of MIT (but it's not
 > even close).  Larry asks if anybody is reading these Yet Another
 > Academic Licenses to make sure they're compliant.  It's clearly an
 > Open Source License.  License is closest to the last part of the
 > Python License (CWI License Agreement).
 > Recommend: approval, placement in non-reusable.
 > 
 > --
 > 
 > Title: ISC License
 > Submission:
 >   http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:87:200802:oidadlhcciaoifccehdo
 > License: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ISC_licence&oldid=189457539
 > Comments: None.  
 > Recommend: approval
 > 
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