[License-discuss] Does this look like an open source license?

Maxthon Chan xcvista at me.com
Thu Jan 22 15:32:12 UTC 2015


I have used a license like this for my open projects for a very long time. Does this look like a real open source license?

Here is the license text, as used in my buttond project:

> buttond, version 1.0
> Copyright (C) 2015 Max T. Chan <xcvista at me.com>, All rights reserved.
>
> You are allowed to use, modify, copy and distribute this software, as long as
> the following conditions are met:
>
>     *   You distribute this software in its executable form with the copyright
>         notice above, this license and the disclaimer below intact and display
>         them in appropriate ways;
>     *   You distribute this software in its source code form with the copyright
>         notice above, this license and the disclaimer below intact and the end
>         result of such source code displays them in appropriate ways;
>     *   The name of the author and contributors are not used without previous
>         explicit written permission by the author and contributors.
>
> THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED TO YOU ON AN "AS-IS" BASIS. NO WARRANTY WHATSOEVER
> COMES WITH THIS SOFTWARE, IMPLICIT OR NOT, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY THE LAWS.
> THE AUTHORS, CONTRIBUTORS AND COPYRIGHT HOLDERS SHALL NOT BE HELD RELIABLE TO
> ANY DAMAGE OR LOSS OCCURRED FROM USING OF THIS SOFTWARE.

Is this a rephrase of the 3-clause BSD license?


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