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Subject: Re: help categorise license
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On 2015-07-27 11:59, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> I'm making a port of http://netlib.org/math.
> Their license looks like BSD2CLAUSE, but can
> somebody please check:
>  http://netlib.org/math/license.htm

That link should end with ".html", not ".htm". In any case, the license
seems identical to the 3-clause BSD [1,2] (note the "Neither the name of
... may be used to endorse or promote ..." part).

(Also note that our license framework should probably be scrapped
entirely, because it is ambiguous and undocumented).

[1] http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
[2] http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:BSD_3Clause