[tex-live] A question on licensing

[Paulo Roberto Massa Cereda]

Hi Martin!

 > But I advise you to use the ISC-license instead:
 > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/share
 > /misc/license.template?rev=HEAD
 > "The ISC copyright is functionally equivalent to a two-term BSD
 > copyright with language removed that is made unnecessary by the Berne
 > convention."

Interesting. :) Sadly, I have no skills to understand the involved 
legalese, so my plan for now is just hide from GPL. :P

Best wishes,

Paulo

Em 08/09/2012 18:51, Martin Schröder escreveu:
> 2012/9/8 Paulo Roberto Massa Cereda <cereda.paulo at gmail.com>:
>> I also would love to make the release TL-friendly in order to be included in
>> the TL distro, but I'm not sure if the current licensing scheme I'm using
>> actually fits the TL policy. I'm quite happy to relicense my tool, if
>> needed.
>
> It does. The BSD-2-clause is GPL and DFSG and Karl-Berry-compatible.
> But I advise you to use the ISC-license instead:
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/share/misc/license.template?rev=HEAD
> "The ISC copyright is functionally equivalent to a two-term BSD
> copyright with language removed that is made unnecessary by the Berne
> convention."
>
> Best
>     Martin
>