BSD License, nice writeup

[Neil Pate]

Just for anybody interested.

Courtesy of our friends at GPower (4th link on google, impressive!) 

http://www.gpower.as/downloads/bsd-license-explained

 

 

[ShaunR]

Note:

That is the BSD-2 Clause licence. There is also the BSD-3 Clause liicence which adds a clause disavowing the use of the providers' name for promotional and/or endorsement of derivative works. 

Edited September 26, 2016 by ShaunR

[JKSH]

18 hours ago, ShaunR said:

Note:

That is the BSD-2 Clause licence. There is also the BSD-3 Clause liicence which adds a clause disavowing the use of the providers' name for promotional and/or endorsement of derivative works. 

And for those who like compact lists:

• https://www.tldrlegal.com/l/freebsd (2-clause, GPower's article)
• https://www.tldrlegal.com/l/bsd3 (3-clause, Shaun's highlight)
• https://tldrlegal.com/license/4-clause-bsd (4-clause, the original BSD license)

Edited September 27, 2016 by JKSH

[infinitenothing]

IMHO, we've talked about it before and this is the annoying part of the license:

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If you deliver binaries exclusively you can for instance save the license text file together with your other material rights documents, or you could paste the license text into the small-print section of your user guide.

We talked about making a tool that would collect all the providers but it seems unnecessary for compiled code. In some cases, maybe its undesirable to let others know what your tool chain is.