[Coin-discuss] license issues

[kevin.c.furman at exxonmobil.com]

I think it is closer in style to the OSI certified MIT license.  In fact,
it is almost identical - the terms are the same, but the order is
different.  I think it would be simple to submit the license to the OSI,
but from the terms of the license it is open source, even if not certified.

> Technically speaking, I don't think it is correct that the ASL is
released
> as open source, since it does not come with a license approved by the
open
> source committee.  It is release under the license below (taken from a
> source file), which I think is called a BSD-style license: