Re: Microsoft Research license

[Taylor R Campbell <campbell+netbsd-tech-pkg%mumble.net@localhost>]

> Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2022 16:55:27 -0600
> From: Brook Milligan <brook%nmsu.edu@localhost>
> 
> I am working on a package that uses the Microsoft Research license (see attached).  This seems substantively identical to the 3-clause BSD license.  As far as I can tell, the only changes are University/Regents/etc. —> copyright holders.
> 
> My question is, how should the license file be named?  That is, should it have a -license suffix as other non-open licenses or not as for other open licenses?
> 
> This will likely go into wip first.  In that case, should I leave the license file in the package directory?  Is there a requirement that licenses in pkgsrc/licenses only correspond to those used by pkgsrc proper, i.e., not wip?

The copyright holder is different but the terms are the same according
to wdiff, so you should use LICENSE=modified-bsd.  There's no need to
commit a new copy of the same terms under a different name into
pkgsrc.