Hi,
Im currently reviewing the "vixie-cron-ng" package (#428007) which is an enhanced vixie-cron (which is licensed "MIT and BSD") we forked. I'm a bit unsure if naming the fork that way is allowed in the light of the 3rd BSD clause:
* 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors * may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software * without specific prior written permission.
The problem I see is that "vixie" is the name of Paul Vixie, the main contributor and I could imagine that this would be seen as endorsing or promoting "the product" with his name.
Comments?
Thanks, Nils
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 18:28 +0100, Nils Philippsen wrote:
Hi,
Im currently reviewing the "vixie-cron-ng" package (#428007) which is an enhanced vixie-cron (which is licensed "MIT and BSD") we forked. I'm a bit unsure if naming the fork that way is allowed in the light of the 3rd BSD clause:
- Neither the name of the University nor the names of its
contributors
- may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this
software
- without specific prior written permission.
The problem I see is that "vixie" is the name of Paul Vixie, the main contributor and I could imagine that this would be seen as endorsing or promoting "the product" with his name.
Interesting. You should probably ask Paul Vixie if you can get his written permission.
~spot
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Nils Philippsen -
Tom Callaway