[Fedora-legal-list] What license is this? BSD or AML?

Ankur Sinha sanjay.ankur at gmail.com
Wed Jul 14 16:16:55 UTC 2010


hey,

What License would this be?

> Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.
> 
> Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
> modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
> are met:
> 1.  Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
>     notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
> 2.  Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
>     notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 
>     documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
> 
> THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY APPLE INC. AND ITS CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND ANY 
> EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
> WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE 
> DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL APPLE INC. OR ITS CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY 
> DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
> (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES;
> LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON
> ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
> (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
> SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
> 

The body matches the BSD 2 clause license[1], but the Copyright makes me
think it's an AML[2]. (But I'm no expert)

I haven't blocked the review request[3] with a FE-LEGAL because both
these licenses are good. 

Thanks,
Regards,
Ankur

[1]
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/BSD#2ClauseBSD
[2]
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Apple_MIT_License
[3]
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=611010
> "webkitgtk3 - GTK+ 3 port of webkit"





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