License compatibility of BSD-new to X11

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am Dienstag, 12. April 2011 12:56:16 schrieb Jan-Christoph Borchardt:
> A developer wants to release his application as MIT/X11. It uses the Dojo
> toolkit which is licensed as modified BSD (or Academic Free License 2.1).
>
> Is this possible? 

In general the license of each component must be followed.
For the part one person, e.g. a developer, hold the exclusive copyrights,
this person can release the part under a license.

> The third clause of the modified BSD seems to prevent 
> that: »Neither the name of the <organization> nor the names of its
> contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this
> software without specific prior written permission.«

This would mean you cannot use the organisation doing the Dojo part
or their contributors to endorse Dojo or products based on it.
But why would someone do this? :)

IANAL,
Bernhard


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