License compatibility of BSD-new to X11

[Jan-Christoph Borchardt]

Thank you both Bernhard and Hannes.

Seeing how it can be used even in proprietary products it should be no
problem, I just wasn’t sure because of this clause. I didn’t know if Dojo
can be viewed on its own.

As I’m even less of a lawyer, that helped.


> On 12.04.2011 10:56, Jan-Christoph Borchardt wrote:
>  > Hey all,
>  >
>  > at the moment I mail web application developers to license their code
>  > freely. Now I have a (probably easy) question regarding license
>  > compatibility:
>  >
>  > 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? 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.«
>  >
>  > Thanks in advance. :)
>  >
>  >
>
> Hi there,
>
> MIT License ~= X11 License ~= 2-Clause-BSDL ~= ISC License
>
> It is debatable whether 2-Clause BSDL is the same as 3-Clause BSDL,
> since international conventions on copyright and many national laws
> don't allow the specified promotion anyways.
>
> Still, I don't see your problem. Dojo's License only applies to Dojo, as
> it is not copyleft. So anything your developer does can be licensed
> under an arbitrary license, so long, as Dojo's copyright header is
> preserved for the Dojo-Code involved.
> In other words, just tell your developer to not call his app "Dojo
> Powerpack X" and he'll be fine.
>
> Of course, this is just personal advice and not legal counsel. If you
> want to be sure, consult a lawyer.
>
> Regards,
> Hannes
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