On 9/16/13 2:51 PM, Sathyanarayanan Gunasekaran wrote:
I'm currently using BSD 3-Clause License (used by Tor) for torperf2. Kevin ported ooni's setup script and made it work with torperf2, but ooni uses a BSD 2-Clause License (both are copyrighted to The Tor Project). Kevin and I think they are compatible, but I wanted to check in with you before I merged the changes. Thoughts?
I have, honestly, no idea. Cc'ing tor-dev@ in the hope that someone else can answer this question.
All the best, Karsten
The only difference between 2 and 3 clause BSD is the presence of the third clause. So long as you're not doing what the third clause restricts, they're compatible. Coordination is still prudent though.
3 clause still exists because some people (mostly legacy entities) think "endorsement" and "promotion" are worrisome concepts deserving explicit restriction (as if you could even define them). But that's all rather moot because they are already implicitly doing E&P for all future derivative products by forcing them to carry their copyright name on/within them.
2 clause seems to realize that and is the current default of the FreeBSD project.
On 9/16/13, Karsten Loesing karsten@torproject.org wrote:
On 9/16/13 2:51 PM, Sathyanarayanan Gunasekaran wrote:
I'm currently using BSD 3-Clause License (used by Tor) for torperf2. Kevin ported ooni's setup script and made it work with torperf2, but ooni uses a BSD 2-Clause License (both are copyrighted to The Tor Project). Kevin and I think they are compatible, but I wanted to check in with you before I merged the changes. Thoughts?
I have, honestly, no idea. Cc'ing tor-dev@ in the hope that someone else can answer this question.
All the best, Karsten
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On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Karsten Loesing karsten@torproject.org wrote:
On 9/16/13 2:51 PM, Sathyanarayanan Gunasekaran wrote:
I'm currently using BSD 3-Clause License (used by Tor) for torperf2. Kevin ported ooni's setup script and made it work with torperf2, but ooni uses a BSD 2-Clause License (both are copyrighted to The Tor Project). Kevin and I think they are compatible, but I wanted to check in with you before I merged the changes. Thoughts?
I have, honestly, no idea. Cc'ing tor-dev@ in the hope that someone else can answer this question.
They're compatible; neither requires anybody to do anything that the other forbids.
If the Tor Project is really the sole copyright holder on both programs, then it's also trivial for us to put the whole thing under 2-clause BSD if we need to. (And I have no objection to dropping the endorsement clause on torperf2.)
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