Hi,
The following license is lifted from a code coming from NetBSD (ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/sjg/ ) but I cannot find exactly the text of this license anywhere else:
# This file is provided in the hope that it will # be of use. There is absolutely NO WARRANTY. # Permission to copy, redistribute or otherwise # use this file is hereby granted provided that # the above copyright notice and this notice are # left intact.
Is this considered BSD-like?
Best regards,
Robert-André
* Robert-André Mauchin:
The following license is lifted from a code coming from NetBSD (ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/sjg/ ) but I cannot find exactly the text of this license anywhere else:
# This file is provided in the hope that it will # be of use. There is absolutely NO WARRANTY. # Permission to copy, redistribute or otherwise # use this file is hereby granted provided that # the above copyright notice and this notice are # left intact.
Is this considered BSD-like?
It doesn't say anything about modification. I think it's non-free because of that.
Thanks, Florian
On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 6:52 AM Robert-André Mauchin zebob.m@gmail.com wrote:
The following license is lifted from a code coming from NetBSD (ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/sjg/ ) but I cannot find exactly the text of this license anywhere else:
# This file is provided in the hope that it will # be of use. There is absolutely NO WARRANTY. # Permission to copy, redistribute or otherwise # use this file is hereby granted provided that # the above copyright notice and this notice are # left intact.
Is this considered BSD-like?
Maybe! How old is it?
There's a loose precedent of accepting these sorts of short permissive licenses so long as there's nothing to indicate that they're intending to disallow modification. "Otherwise use" could certainly be construed to permit modification in this case. But it's generally applied to text from, say, 25ish years ago. So if it's very old, we could permit it. If it's from this century, it's probably better for upstream to put a "real" license on it.
FYI: I managed to contact upstream and should be able to get an explicit answer in the coming days.
Upstream kindly made a new release including the following LICENSE file:
``` The individual files in this distribution are copyright their original contributors or assignees. Including:
Copyright (c) 1994-2020, Simon J Gerraty Copyright (c) 2010-2018, Juniper Networks, Inc. Copyright (c) 1988-1993Kind The Regents of the University of California.
Note: some of the *.mk files here were originally derrived from early NetBSD bsd.*.mk and do not carry any explicit copyright notice, or license terms, as is the custom in the BSD world for makefiles.
The contributions from Juniper Networks are under:
SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
and you can consider that the operative license. ```
On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 2:16 PM Timothée FLoure timothee.floure@posteo.net wrote:
Upstream kindly made a new release including the following LICENSE file:
That's great! Thanks for working with upstream on this, Timothée.
Robert-André, you can proceed with this as a BSD-like license.