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

[Howard Chu]

Brendan Hickey wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 12:26 Smith, McCoy <mccoy.smith at intel.com <mailto:mccoy.smith at intel.com>> wrote:
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>     *>>From:*License-review [mailto:license-review-bounces at lists.opensource.org <mailto:license-review-bounces at lists.opensource.org>] *On Behalf Of *Simon Phipps
>     *>>Sent:* Wednesday, August 14, 2019 2:46 AM
>     *>>To:* License submissions for OSI review <license-review at lists.opensource.org <mailto:license-review at lists.opensource.org>>
>     *>>Subject:* Re: [License-review] For Legacy Approval: OpenLDAP Public License____
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>     >>To my eyes the key difference is the updateability clause:____
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>         The OpenLDAP Foundation may revise this license from time to time.
>         Each revision is distinguished by a version number.  You may use this Software under terms of this license revision or under the terms of any subsequent
>         revision of the license.____
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>     Yes, that is a substantive difference over BSD 3-clause.
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> We should regard upgrade clauses skeptically, particularly when the license steward is the only user of the license. This language could be used to generate a
> proprietary fork if the steward saw fit. The GPL at least claims that revisions will be in the spirit of the original, AGPL linking clause notwithstanding.

At this point, the license steward Kurt Zeilenga at the OpenLDAP Foundation has completely distanced himself from all
OpenLDAP-related work, so I don't foresee any further changes to the license.
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> Brendan


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