Permissive licenses

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Wed May 15 02:52:59 PDT 2013


On 2013-5-15 18:34 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> On May 14, 2013, at 22:59, Leo Singer wrote:
> 
>> For porting packages with the following licenses
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/mplh5canvas/source/browse/trunk/LICENSE.txt
>> http://code.google.com/p/pywebsocket/source/browse/trunk/src/COPYING
>>
>> are these considered 'Permissive', i.e., is 'license Permissive' appropriate in Portfiles for these two packages? The key terms are:
>>
...
> That's the 3-clause BSD license:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#3-clause_license_.28.22Revised_BSD_License.22.2C_.22New_BSD_License.22.2C_or_.22Modified_BSD_License.22.29
> 
> In MacPorts we call that "license BSD".

Yes, and the home pages for those two projects say as much.

- Josh


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