Odd licenses

Andrew Overholt overholt at redhat.com
Fri Feb 9 19:43:50 UTC 2007


Sorry, I forgot to include the links.  Full text below.

Merge review for adaptx
[1]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225238

adaptx license.txt
[2]
http://svn.codehaus.org/castor/adaptx/trunk/src/doc/license.txt

* Andrew Overholt <overholt at redhat.com> [2007-02-09 14:42]:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently trying to do to the merge review for adaptx [1] but the
> license field is troubling:
> 
> Exolab Software License
> 
> A google query gives this page (in the cache):
> 
> http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:kh3l7BHsrJsJ:freshmeat.net/releases/3417/+exolab+osi&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=7&gl=us&lr=lang_en|lang_fr&client=firefox-a
> 
> Which seems to imply that the license [2] is BSD.  It does indeed look
> quite BSD-ish to me but what should the license field have?  Is this
> okay from a legal standpoint?  Spot?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew
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