On 1/5/15, 1:56 PM, "Justin Mclean" <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I've made the changes to NOTICE and LICENSE for saxon9 but there may be a
>further legal issue we need to resolve. The James Clark license is
>MIT/X11 (or similar) license with an anti  advertising clause. I think
>this is a reaction to the BSD license with the advertising clause and
>should be OK but not 100% sure.

IMO, it isn’t a reaction but either way I think we’re ok.  [1][2] don’t
place any restrictions on the variants of MIT licenses, and [4] says the
text you call an “anti-advertising” clause is in some of these variants.

-Alex

>
>1.http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#permissive-deps
>2. http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-a
>3. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html

[4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:MIT?rd=Licensing/MIT

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