Le mercredi 02 septembre 2009 à 16:03 +0200, Carsten Wolff a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I have a project here based on code under the "Internet2" license and I was
> wondering, if it is any different from the 3-clause BSD license.
>
> If it's no different, can I leave out the additional explanatory section
> ("You
> are under no obligation[..]in binary and source code form.") in derivative
> work and just license the whole derivative under BSD?It is very different since this additional section makes it a copyleft license, which makes it incompatible with most other copyleft licenses. > You are under no obligation whatsoever to provide any enhancements to > Internet2 or its contributors. If you choose to provide your > enhancements, or if you choose to otherwise publish or distribute your > enhancements, in source code form without contemporaneously requiring > end users to enter into a separate written license agreement for such > enhancements, then you thereby grant Internet2 and its contributors a > non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual license to install, use, > modify, prepare derivative works, incorporate into the software or > other computer software, distribute, and sublicense your enhancements > or derivative works thereof, in binary and source code form. The “Internet2 and its contributors” choice of words is poor, but otherwise it sounds like a reasonable and free copyleft license. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in `- future understand things” -- Jörg Schilling
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