[License-review] For Legacy Approval: LBNL BSD

[John Cowan]

On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 10:37 AM Smith, McCoy <mccoy.smith at intel.com> wrote:

I’m curious why, if this license has been used successfully for 16 years,
> OSI approval is needed at all? Has the lack of OSI approval suddenly
> resulted in prospective licensees declining to use code under this license?
>

The licensor wouldn't necessarily know the answer to that.  A prospective
licensee might look and say "What is this so-called BSD license?  Is it OSI
approved?  No."   And discard the software.


John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
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capture.  And in capturing shall it replicate, and in replicating shall
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