License committee report for March 2008

[Harlan Stenn]

> 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.

As long as you aren't asking me to ask Dave to change *his* license that
should be no problem.

If you want to change the *model* copy, feel free.  If you want explicit
permission from Dave about this I'm happy to ask him.

And by my recollection, the original NTP license (before the "and
without fee" -> "with or without fee" change) was ripped from the old
MIT license.  After that change it agreed with (word for word) the ISC
license from some recent verison of BIND (before their latest change to
appease the FSF).

More to the point, do you need me to do anything before we get the NTP
License listed as an "approved" license?

H
--
> 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:lhgknjghckjgokjdimh
> i
>  > Comments: Withdrawn by submittor:
>  >   http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:84:200802:lhgknjghckjgokjdimh
> i
>  > 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:oidadlhcciaoifccehd
> o
>  > License: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ISC_licence&oldid=18945
> 7539
>  > Comments: None.  
>  > Recommend: approval
>  > 
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