[Fedora-legal-list] new license: JDBM License

Andy Grimm agrimm at gmail.com
Thu Aug 2 18:05:36 UTC 2012


On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Tom Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 08/02/2012 01:33 PM, Andy Grimm wrote:
>> There's currently a package called JDBM up for review.  Its license is
>> much like ASL 1.1, but not identical, so I'd like to have it reviewed.
>> The license is here:
>> http://jdbm.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/jdbm/jdbm/LICENSE.txt?revision=1.1&pathrev=V1_0
>>
>> The package review is here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=844033
>
> We actually call it BSD in Fedora:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/BSD#jCharts_Variant
>
> (ASL 1.1 is a BSD derived license, so one could argue that this license
> is ASL 1.1 derived instead of BSD, but, whatever).

Okay.  I would have thought that clause 4 made it pretty distinct from
BSD, but I'll go with it.  Thanks for the quick response.

Andy

> ~tom
>
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