--On Monday, September 18, 2017 7:13 PM +0200 Radovan Semancik radovan.semancik@evolveum.com wrote:
That's incorrect. It's a BSD-style license, it doesn't get much more basic than that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses
The point is that is may be BSD-style license. But it is not a BSD license. I may need to run OpenLDAP license with our company lawyer to make sure it is BSD-like and to be sure about the implications that might be hidden there. I would not need to do that with a BSD license. Everybody knows that one already. That's the power of standardization. It saves time and lowers barriers.
Numerous projects have BSD-style licenses, this isn't OpenLDAP specific. So yes, you should already have a legal team, if that's necessary in your case, that's familiar with dealing with FOSS licenses, to review them.
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On 09/18/2017 06:25 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
Numerous projects have BSD-style licenses, this isn't OpenLDAP specific. So yes, you should already have a legal team, if that's necessary in your case, that's familiar with dealing with FOSS licenses, to review them.
Not really. Not that many any more. But in fact I try to avoid using such projects. Certainly I do not consider contributions into these. I think that is not worth the effort. Unfortunately, I have to conclude that OpenLDAP project seems to confirm my assumption.
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