License texts are functional, and I would have assumed that they are not subject to copyright. No doubt we have cases from boilerplate form producers as precedent.
Thanks Bruce On Fri, May 31, 2019, 13:45 Smith, McCoy <mccoy.sm...@intel.com> wrote: > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: License-discuss [mailto: > license-discuss-boun...@lists.opensource.org] On Behalf Of Richard Fontana > >>Sent: Friday, May 31, 2019 11:08 AM > >>To: mas...@opensource.org; license-discuss@lists.opensource.org > >>Subject: Re: [License-discuss] License licenses > > >>For example, for the MIT license: > > >>(1) No submitter -- the MIT license was grandfathered in by the original > OSI board > >>(2) No nominal copyright owner > >>(3) Despite its name, MIT does not appear to have authored the MIT > license, based on the historical research I've done -- somewhat important > because in later times I believe the MIT tech transfer office itself > assumed -- based on the name popularized by the OSI itself -- that it had > authored the MIT license, and also more recently some of the members of the > "open source licenses can be copyright only" camp wish to argue that the > MIT license should be read as a "copyright only" license because the > present-day MIT tech transfer office supposedly takes that view. MIT is not > the license steward of the MIT license -- there is no license steward -- > which is separate from but closely related to the authorship and copyright > ownership issue. > > Here's some MIT license archeology: > https://opensource.com/article/19/4/history-mit-license > > Be interesting to see one on BSD too, although I didn't see a similar one > using some quick web inquiries. > > _______________________________________________ > License-discuss mailing list > License-discuss@lists.opensource.org > > http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org >
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