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  1. Legal Discuss
  2. LEGAL-130

Handling of permissive licenses that are very similar to MIT/BSD/ASL/etc.

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    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
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      A lot of organizations and developers provide their source under permissive licenses that are not 100% copies of the licenses approved in category A.

      Examples of typical cases can be seen in
      http://www.math.washington.edu/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/mm/parseAFM.h
      http://opensource.apple.com/source/X11/X11-0.40/xc/lib/Xrender/Xrender.h
      https://github.com/martinkahr/apple_remote_control/blob/master/AppleRemote.h
      http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=sane/sane-backends.git;a=blob;f=include/sane/sane.h;hb=HEAD
      http://www.twain.org/license.shtm
      ...

      How should one handle them? Submit a JIRA issue for each file with a license that is not 100% identical to the ones already categorized or are there general rules to auto-categorize them?

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            hdu Herbert Dürr
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