For Approval: The Simplified BSD License

Sat Sep 8 01:21:46 UTC 2007

Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> 4) This license is already in widespread use by (at least) the FreeBSD
> and OpenBSD projects, as well as offshoots of those projects
> (e.g. OpenSSH), and other unrelated projects (e.g. Varnish).
>> The advantage of this license over the full BSD license is that it is
> unambiguously compatible with the GPL, as the no-endorsement clause
> could be regarded as a "further restriction on the recipients'
> exercise of rights" preventing BSD-licensed software from being
> combined with GPL software.

The license is clearly compliant with the OSD. I still find its purpose
somewhat duplicative of the MIT/X11 license, but given that Simplified
BSD is already in use, and some BSD licensors are unwilling to use MIT,
I support its approval.
Matt Flaschen