[License-review] New license approvals

Richard Fontana fontana at opensource.org
Wed Apr 5 16:53:47 UTC 2017


Good news, everyone!

The OSI has approved both the Upstream Compatibility License 1.0 and the
BSD+Patent License. 

The UCL was specifically approved as a 'Special Purpose' proliferation
category license. I see that McCoy Smith suggested the same category for
BSD+Patent but suggested as an alternative that it could be approved as
a variant to the 2-clause BSD license. The issue of proliferation
category was not specifically addressed in the course of approval of
BSD+Patent; for the moment I would assume it should be treated as
'Special Purpose' as well.

Richard



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