help categorise license

Vitaly Magerya vmagerya at gmail.com
Mon Jul 27 09:37:05 UTC 2015


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).

[1] http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
[2] http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:BSD_3Clause


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