[ccan] ISC license?

[Rusty Russell]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 03:41:44 am Joseph Adams wrote:
> Oops, forgot to copy the list.
> 
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:55 AM, Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
> > Hi Joey,
> >
> >   Finally glanced at your AVL code; noted the ISC license.  I'm not
> > particularly fussed, but I found this note:
> >
> > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
> >
> >        This license does have an unfortunate wording choice: it provides
> >        recipients with "Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute
> >        this software...." This is roughly the same language from the license
> >        of Pine that the University of Washington later claimed prohibited
> >        people from distributing modified versions of the software.
> >
> >        ISC has told us they do not share the University of Washington's
> >        interpretation, and we have every reason to believe them. Thus,
> >        there's no reason to avoid software released under this license.
> >        However, to help make sure this language cannot cause any trouble in
> >        the future, we encourage developers to choose a different license for
> >        their own works. The Expat License and FreeBSD License are similarly
> >        permissive and brief.
> >
> > I already have BSD-MIT in the CCAN tree, too...
> >
> > Cheers!
> > Rusty.
> >
> 
> I attached a patch changing the AVL module to the MIT license.

Thanks, applied!

> I think we'll need another file in licenses, perhaps called
> BSD3.

Indeed...

Thanks,
Rusty.