[libvirt] [PATCH 01/14] Introduce a simple API for handling JSON data

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Dec 3 12:56:32 UTC 2009


On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 01:50:59PM +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 
>   http://lloyd.github.com/yajl/
> 
> The licence is BSD ... but with what looks like an advertizing clause
> see point 2. below:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Copyright 2007-2009, Lloyd Hilaiel.
>  
>  Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
>  modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
>  met:
>  
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>  
>   2. 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.
>  
>   3. Neither the name of Lloyd Hilaiel 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 AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

I don't think that is the BSD+Advertizing - that would have a fourth
clause explicitly mentioning Advertizing. This looks just like a 
standard 3-clause BSD to me, when comparing to:

 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:BSD

Regards,
Daniel
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