Re: UMD license

Hi Chapman,

Sorry for the delay, been in vacation and busy.

Is it correct for you if I add the attached 'COPYRIGHT.BSD' file and 
allow you to release under that license?

Jean-Louis


On 19/06/17 10:20 AM, Chapman Flack wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If a contribution is made under the UMD license, which is called
> "BSD-style" in [1], does that mean the exact language in [2], or
> with edits to show the copyright held by the contributor (as [1]
> provides)?
>
> When I compare it to an unaltered 3-clause BSD license [3],
> the UMD license seems to have taken out all references to
> "copyright holders" and "contributors" and replaced them
> with only "U.M." If new files get contributed with exactly that
> wording at the top, it's not clear any interests of the contributor
> are protected.
>
> I see that there have been past contributions from my place of work
> (by John R. Jackson) and they were made under UMD, and I tried looking
> through the repo to find the exact header at the top of any file he
> may have contributed, but all I could find was a file with
> no header at the top, so not quite the conclusive example I
> was looking for. :)
>
> Cheers,
> -Chap
>
> [1]: http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Licensing_your_Contribution 
> <http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Licensing_your_Contribution>
> [2]: https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/blob/tags/3_2_3/COPYRIGHT 
> <https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/blob/tags/3_2_3/COPYRIGHT>
> [3]: https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause 
> <https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause>
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