help categorise license

[Kubilay Kocak]

On 27/07/2015 7:36 PM, Vitaly Magerya wrote:
> On 2015-07-27 11:59, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
>> I'm making a port of http://netlib.org/math.
>> Their license looks like BSD2CLAUSE, but can
>> somebody please check:
>>  http://netlib.org/math/license.htm
> 
> That link should end with ".html", not ".htm". In any case, the license
> seems identical to the 3-clause BSD [1,2] (note the "Neither the name of
> ... may be used to endorse or promote ..." part).
> 
> (Also note that our license framework should probably be scrapped
> entirely, because it is ambiguous and undocumented).

Or it could just be made less ambiguous and documented.

Otherwise, we should scrap entirely all other things that are also
ambiguous and undocumented.

I imagine this will be a large list, and include large parts of the kernel.