Re: License and pgfoundry

From: Tzahi Fadida <TzahiFadida(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-students(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: License and pgfoundry
Date: 2006-06-03 18:53:32
Message-ID: 200606032153.32880.TzahiFadida@gmail.com
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Are there guidelines to add a proper BSD license to the project?
only In README, also in C soruces?
Adding personal credits.

How this thing works?
I saw that on the OSI site, the template of the license is a bit different
from the licenses i see being used in the contrib and postgresql.
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php

here is the template from the site. what should i use?

Copyright (c) <YEAR>, <OWNER>
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
* 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.
* Neither the name of the <ORGANIZATION> nor the names of its contributors may
be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without
specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND 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 THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR 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.

On Friday 02 June 2006 02:50, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Tzahi,
>
> > The license should be BSD to enter the official PostgreSQL tree, right?
>
> Yes.
>
> > GPL is not accepted even as a contrib module.
>
> Yes. That's because of the "infectious" clause of the GPL.
>
> > Btw, if there aren't any objections i am planning to
> > open a pgfoundry project.
> > If i understand correctly, it also provides cvs services like
> > sourceforge.
>
> Correct.

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