Copyright (c) 2008 The Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior University
We are making the OpenFlow specification and associated documentation (Software) available for public use and benefit with the expectation that others will use, modify and enhance the Software and contribute those enhancements back to the community. However, since we would like to make the Software available for broadest use, with as few restrictions as possible permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this Software to deal in the Software under the copyrights without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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It seems they're rolling their own license, as opposed to adopting any of the other open licensing schemes out there. Any thoughts why they might do this?
It does appear to be largely identical. Is it not common practice to include the name of the MIT license with the distribution, as is the case with the GPL and Apache licenses?
No, not that I have seen. It's only called the MIT license because MIT used it for their software (X, Athena, etc). The BSD license is a similar situation; it doesn't say BSD in it anywhere, it's only called that because it was used by BSD. Plus these days, neither of those licenses are overseen by who named them - vs the Apache and GNU GPL which have version numbers and caretakers, if you will.
License
Copyright (c) 2008 The Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior University
We are making the OpenFlow specification and associated documentation (Software) available for public use and benefit with the expectation that others will use, modify and enhance the Software and contribute those enhancements back to the community. However, since we would like to make the Software available for broadest use, with as few restrictions as possible permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this Software to deal in the Software under the copyrights without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
The name and trademarks of copyright holder(s) may NOT be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to the Software or any derivatives without specific, written prior permission.
It seems they're rolling their own license, as opposed to adopting any of the other open licensing schemes out there. Any thoughts why they might do this?