BSD License

[davidslater250]

Can someone clarify which BSD license (2,3 or 4 clause) this is licensed under?

Thanks!

[richardfontana]

@davidslater250 @saxicek I found the correct license here
http://www.thaiopensource.com/download/trang-20030619.zip
see "copying.txt" file:

Copyright (c) 2002, 2003 Thai Open Source Software Center Ltd
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
met:

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
distribution.

Neither the name of the Thai Open Source Software Center Ltd nor
the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote
products derived from this software without specific prior written
permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
"AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR
CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL,
EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR
PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING
NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

[saxicek]

@richardfontana Does not really seem like original file given that Benson Margulies is MIT guy and jclark sounds also like American / UK.

[richardfontana]

Having taken another look at this because it just came up in a Fedora context, I believe my previous conclusion is basically correct. In the zip file available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/relaxng/files/datatype%20%28java%29/2001_10_11/relaxngDatatype.java.zip/download
the files at src/org/relaxng/datatype appear to be identical to the files in this repository at https://github.com/java-schema-utilities/relaxng-datatype-java/tree/master/src/main/java/org/relaxng/datatype

The zip file includes a license file, ThaiOpenSourceCenter-copying.txt, the contents of which are identical to what I posted above except that the date in the copyright notice is "2001" rather than "2002, 2003". This is a fairly common variety of 3-clause BSD license.

Regarding @saxicek's comment, for biographical material on Jim Clark see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clark_(programmer) .

Clark has lived in Bangkok, Thailand since 1995, and is permanent Thai resident. He owns a company called Thai Open Source Software Center, which provides him a legal framework for his open-source activities.

[richardfontana]

Oh, also @jclark is on github in case he wishes to comment.

[jclark]

@richardfontana Conclusion is correct. trang lives here now: https://github.com/relaxng/jing-trang

Thai Open Source Software Center is no more, but it assigned the copyright to me before it closed down (though I'm not sure I could lay my hands on the bit of paper any longer).