On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 06:35:30PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > 1. Battelle Memorial Institute (hereinafter Battelle) hereby grants > permission to any person or entity lawfully obtaining a copy of this > software and associated documentation files (hereinafter “the Software”) > to redistribute and use the Software in source and binary forms, with or > without modification. Such person or entity may use, copy, modify, > merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the > Software, and may permit others to do so, subject to the following > conditions > - Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, > this list of conditions and the following disclaimers. > - Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright > notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the > documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. > - Other than as used herein, neither the name Battelle Memorial Institute > or Battelle may be used in any form whatsoever without the express > written consent of Battelle.
I've CC'd debian-legal because of this last provision. It seems to restrict the ability to refer to the Battelle Memorial Institute in unrelated matters. For example, it would forbid me from writing a blog entry stating that Battelle is a non-profit headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, US. This is a reasonable (and otherwise legal) use of that name that this license pretends to restrict. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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