s/BSL/BuSL/g [LWN.net]

s/BSL/BuSL/g

Posted Mar 29, 2024 6:22 UTC (Fri) by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359)
Parent article: The race to replace Redis

BSL is Boost’s (and not a nōn-free licence), the newcomer does not get to occupy the same name, which is also listed in SPDX.

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Posted Apr 13, 2024 15:03 UTC (Sat) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (2 responses)

> the newcomer does not get to occupy the same name

Okay, I'm not sure of the context here, but this is different IP.

I think copyright licences should be about copyright, not about trademarks, patents, etc, but to explicitly point out that a copyright licence does not give permission to infringe trademark is perfectly okay.

Cheers,
Wol

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Posted Apr 13, 2024 17:13 UTC (Sat) by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359) [Link] (1 responses)

I don’t know what comment you are replying to, but *I* was pointing out that LWN used the wrong shortname for the licence: BSL is Boost’s, the nōn-free licence is shortened BuSL.

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Posted Apr 15, 2024 13:44 UTC (Mon) by daroc (editor, #160859) [Link]

Oh! That makes more sense; I didn't understand when I read your first comment. I've pointed this out to Joe. In the future, please feel free to submit typo (or think-o) reports to lwn@lwn.net; one of us is always watching that address so that we can respond to things quickly.