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

[Howard Chu]

Smith, McCoy wrote:
> 
> 
>> 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.

I haven't found anything in our mailing list archives to answer that question. Kurt Zeilenga,
who is still head of the OpenLDAP Foundation, hasn't been actively involved in the Project
for many years, and is difficult to reach.

>>> 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.

Probably you need to also read the COPYRIGHT file to get the full context of the situation.

http://www.openldap.org/devel/gitweb.cgi?p=openldap.git;a=blob;f=COPYRIGHT;h=0ff9740862db3afe56acc12cfa7d8aacadda27e8;hb=HEAD

Since we've inherited legacy code/copyrights from UMich there's more involved.


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