QuantLib License 1.0 submitted for OSD branding

[Ferdinando Ametrano]

David Johnson wrote:
>My suggestion is to simply the the BSD license as is. [...]
>Although the standard MIT license doesn't have anything about advertisements
>or promotions, the new BSD license does. So just use the BSD license.
OK, thank you for the suggestion. I adopted that: 
http://quantlib.org/license.html

I started from the in the opensource.org BSD template 
(http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.html) then I  modified the 
following sentences:
1) "Neither the name of the <ORGANIZATION> nor the names of its contributors"
2) "IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE"
into
1a) "Neither the name of the copyright holders nor the names of the 
QuantLib Group and its contributors"
2a) "IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR CONTRIBUTORS"

I think that the word REGENTS in the sentence#2 is just a typo. Isn't it?
Should I still submit the resulting QuantLib License to 
license-approval at opensource.org?

>The license holders' names should already be in the copyright line. If 
>"QuantLib Group"
>is not the legal copyright holder, then you need to change it.
I did that, then I placed the developers names into the "AUTHORS" file: 
that is I listed RiskMap developers as authors, even if the copyright of 
their code is own by their employeer. Is it OK?

Karsten M. Self wrote:
>Note that the Apache license isn't GPL compatible.  I'm not sure if this
>is or isn't a goal of the QuantLib project, but the issue should be
>considered.
It is a goal. Thank you for your warning

One more consideration: I started from the FSF Xfree86-style license 
suggestion (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html), then I tried to adopt 
the OSI certified license that had the most similar wording, that is the 
MIT license, finally I'm settling for BSD and I will have to get back to 
FSF for GPL compatibility certification.
Would the OSI board consider to ask FSF to suggest the opensource.org BSD 
template for Non-Copylefted Free Software?

ciao -- Nando

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