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

Howard Chu hyc at openldap.org
Wed Aug 14 01:34:04 UTC 2019


Bruce Perens via License-review wrote:
>     The names of the authors and copyright holders must not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealing in this Software
>     without specific, written prior permission.
> 
> ... 
> 
>     OpenLDAP is a registered trademark of the OpenLDAP Foundation.
> 
> 
> It's not possible to acknowledge the OpenLDAP trademark in advertising without violating the above term. Use of the OpenLDAP trademark in advertising /without
> /acknowledging it is equally problematical. 

The authors and copyright holders are individual people (and an institution, University of Michigan)
and have nothing to do with the OpenLDAP trademark.

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