[License-review] New source license

[Karl Fogel]

Moving this thread over to license-review list now -- let's please keep
followups there.  -K

Chris Walker <cwalker at secretlabs.com> writes:
>Wow, that's a very fast response :)
>
>Yes, that is the 'ST liberty' source code license under which ST is
>now licensing much of their reference code (which code is being
>copy/pasted into open source projects, to support ST's microchips).
>
>It appears that this is a step by ST to enable more free use and
>understandable licensing; in contrast, many other microcontroller
>manufacturers simply put a Copyright notice on their reference code
>and leave the licensing a bit ambiguous.
>
>Chris
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Martin Michlmayr [mailto:tbm at hp.com] 
>Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 7:43 AM
>To: Chris Walker
>Cc: osi at opensource.org
>Subject: Re: [Osi] [General enquiries] New source license
>
>Hi Chris,
>
>Do you mean this one:
>http://www.st.com/internet/com/LEGAL_RESOURCES/LEGAL_AGREEMENT/LICENSE_AGREEMENT/software_license_agreement_liberty_v2.pdf
>?
>
>Martin
>
>* cwalker at secretlabs.com <cwalker at secretlabs.com> [2012-07-31 04:29]:
>> Chris Walker (cwalker at secretlabs.com) sent a message using the contact 
>> form at http://opensource.org/contact.
>> 
>> Dear OSI,
>> 
>> ST Micro has started releasing their source code under their new "ST 
>> Liberty License".
>> 
>> Have you evaluated this new license, to determine if it qualifies as 
>> an Open Source License?  It seems like open source is the 
>> intention--and with such a large number of open source projects using 
>> STmicro code it would seem valuable to evaluate this license to 
>> determine if the code can be incorporated into popular open source projects.
>> 
>> Chris
>> Secret Labs LLC
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>> cwalker at secretlabs.com
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>Martin Michlmayr
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