License draft

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Issues to assess

  1. Re-use of components with other licenses : It is certainly important to know whether they are inside or outside of the perfSONAR package. In the latter case you have to assess this carefully.
  2. Use case
  3. Choose a license off the shelf
    • Berkeley - who is the <coryright holder>? ,What <year>? Which <organisation>?
      • copyright holder: an organisation - for the new developments the consortium (and in the case it is not a legal entity, Dante as it is owned by the NRENs, it is easier to comply to the GN2/GN3 IPR as in a single point).
      • CNM: no license because you don't get the source code.
      • Hades: modified Berkeley license (not sure if all the code has it). Before it was DFN.
      • the year is the year when you write down the copyright => 2008
      • organisation = copyright holder
      • What about GN3? (GN2 cease to exist, people arrive, people leave).
  1. Get it approved by the project
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Use case

Basically, we want a license that allow people

  • to re-use the code for their own development
  • to extend the code

Notes:

  • Code extention by third party project: the extensions can be "re-licensed" under Berkeley but are bound to stay GPL, if you are going GPL (CG).
  • The licensing allows anybody to use your code, but it does not allow to claim authorship and to "appropriate" in such a way (CG)
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License 

* Copyright (c) 2008, DANTE on behalf of the GEANT2 NRENs
* All rights reserved.
*
* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
* modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
*     * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
*       notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
*     * 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.
*     * Neither the name of the DANTE or GEANT2 nor the
*       names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
*       derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
*
* THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY DANTE ``AS IS AND ANY
* EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
* WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
* DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL <copyright holder> BE LIABLE FOR ANY
* DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
* (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES;
* LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND
* ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
* (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
* SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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