[License-review] For Legacy Approval: OpenLDAP Public License

Smith, McCoy mccoy.smith at intel.com
Tue Aug 13 23:34:37 UTC 2019



> On Aug 13, 2019, at 4:15 PM, Howard Chu <hyc at openldap.org> wrote:
> 
>  Also, the previous
> version of this license was already OSI-approved in 2001, so what's the problem with re-listing it?
> 
The wayback machine from that era wasn’t showing that when I checked.

Do you know when it was OSI approved and why it was later taken off the list? AFAIK licenses aren’t taken off the list unless the steward requests it.
>> 
>> 
>> My reading of the BSD-3 Clause indicates that there is only a single copyright owner and single copyright statement for the entire source tree, but that is not the case here.
>>> 
I don’t think this is a consensus interpretation of BSD.


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