Re: BSD License "Innocence" Clause Proposal

Sorry, forgot this part..

On Wednesday 22 March 2006 17:57, you wrote:
Nope. The real BSD license gives copyrights to the University of
California, Berkeley. Mainly for historical reasons because BSD
originated from there, but there is a legal reason also. You see, if
I Ted Mittelstaedt release software copyright Ted Mittelstaedt, even
if I give everyone rights to use it, I still retain copyright and
later on I can change the terms of that copyright. That is what the
courts have said I can do. As a result of this, people, when they use
my work commercially they will need to get me to sign a piece of paper.
If I'm not reachable, that's kind of hard. By giving the copyright

If you use the copyright statement and then quote the (extra) provisions you
have for distribution, as in

--
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:

[ acceptable conditions like attribution ]

or

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted.
--

then they don't need you to sign anything, well, not for that code with those
clauses. You are granting redistribution rights which are not granted by
copyright itself, that's why there's a distribution license. I don't see the
problem really.

to the University, it assures any future entity that there will never
be any question of copyight rights to use the work since the UCB
obviously
isn't difficult to find, and is not likely to dry up and disappear.

s/University/FSF and s/BSD/GPL and you have a heated debate :)

This is why FreeBSD is copyrighted The FreeBSD Project and
not the individual developers copyrights.

That's certainly not the case for the code used in FreeBSD, only for the
FreeBSD trademark I think. Look at a random file in src.

If you retain your own copyright on the
work then your license might be a BSD-like license, but it's not
the BSD license.

Dan
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