On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:28:48PM -0500, Mark W. Alexander wrote: > Hi all, > > Has the net-snmp license (http://www.net-snmp.org/COPYING.txt) been > specifically OSI approved or rejected. It's "bsd-like", but OSI > certification goes a long way towards selling it to management as "safe" > to use.
Really the software is under 3 separate licenses accorrding to that page. (What a mess). The CMU/UCD license is known as the Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer and is OSI approved: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/historical.php The Network Associates, Inc is a standard 3 clause BSD license which is also OSI approved: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php The Cambridge Broadband Ltd. license is mostly a standard 3 clause BSD license, though the endorsement and the warranty disclaimer have the mention of "contributors" removed. I don't think this change is significant enough to consider it not to be the BSD license. So in my view the licenses it is under is already OSI certified. However, my review was only based upon the URL you provided. I did not make any effort to review the copyright notices and licenses of each file. So there may be other licenses that apply that I'm not aware of and as such you can't rely on my review as a definitive review of the licensing of the software. Standard disclaimers: IANAL, TINLA. Nor am I on the OSI board. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking." - H.L. Mencken -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
