License questions

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1. License contains a reference to grnxx: "grnxx - An open-source fulltext 
search engine and column store."  Is this intentional?

2. BSD part contain "<ORGANIZATION>" placeholder which should be probably 
replaced with some organization name. 

3. Is it OK that I'm referring to you personally and to marisa-trie C++ library 
in a wrapper README (https://github.com/kmike/marisa-trie)? License says that 
"Neither the name of the <ORGANIZATION> nor the names of its contributors may 
be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without 
specific prior written permission."

Original issue reported on code.google.com by kmik...@gmail.com on 12 Apr 2013 at 6:47

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link to README becomes broken above; proper link: 
https://github.com/kmike/marisa-trie/blob/master/README.rst

Original comment by kmik...@gmail.com on 12 Apr 2013 at 6:49

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1. Sorry, it's due to a mistake. I'll fix it soon.

2. There are no organization to replace the placeholder because I was 
unemployed when I developed marisa-trie. So, I left it as it is.

3. No problem. Thank you. Do you think the BSD 2-clause license is better than 
the 3-clause one? The 2-clause license does not contain the sentence "Neither 
the name of ..."

Original comment by susumu.y...@gmail.com on 12 Apr 2013 at 11:41

• Changed state: Accepted

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2. "In all BSD licences as <organization> is the organization of the <copyright 
holder> or just the <copyright holder>" - so it should be fine to just use a 
name instead of organization;

3. I like 2-clause BSD (or a very similar MIT license) more because of its 
simplicity - it is not always clear what "endorse or promote" means in 3-clause 
BSD license; but of course you can use any license for this wonderful piece of 
software. Thanks for the clarification.

Original comment by kmik...@gmail.com on 12 Apr 2013 at 11:58

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marisa-trie is now dual-licensed under the BSD *2-clause* license and the LGPL 
(2.1 or any later version).

Thanks!

Original comment by susumu.y...@gmail.com on 13 Apr 2013 at 12:34

• Changed state: Fixed

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Thanks!

Original comment by kmik...@gmail.com on 13 Apr 2013 at 3:03