Re: UMD license

Hi Jean-Louis,

Thanks - I'll check with the higher-ups, but I think the straight
BSD license will be easy to get cleared.

-Chap

On 08/07/2017 10:21 AM, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
> 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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