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Clarify BSD-style licenses #138

Closed porst17 closed 8 years ago

porst17 commented 8 years ago

Currently, the only BSD license choice is FreeBSD, which is also known as 2-clause BSD license. However, the most common choice is AFAIK the 3-clause BSD license and we actually have two programs listed on the platform that are released under the 3-clause license but have the wrong 2-clause license assigned.

I vote for adding the 3-clause BSD license and renaming the FreeBSD license to 2-clause BSD license.

We could also add the 4-clause BSD license (also known as the original BSD license), but it is considered largely incompatible with other FOSS licenses. Therefore, I think we shouldn't add it.

For clarification of the different versions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses

elondaits commented 8 years ago

According Wikipedia the 3-clause license is also called "Modified BSD", and we have that one although a bit lower on the list. I'll rename and rearrange them.

elondaits commented 8 years ago

I changed the license of jReality to 3-clause. I didn't find any other program using a BSD license. It's possible I missed it because programs can have many licenses and I don't know if the methods I used to search capture them all. Let me know and I'll change it.

porst17 commented 8 years ago

Sorry for the trouble. I missed the modified BSD license. 3D-XplorMath is also licensed under the 3-clause BSD license. I will change it myself.

elondaits commented 8 years ago

Still it's better if they're together since they're so closely related and people can always find both. Specially since "FreeBSD" seems like a generic name.