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consider restricting the content of "{company}" for BSD2 license third clause #107

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@mikaelarguedas

Follow-up of #106

The current matching allow anything to be placed between Neither the name of and nor the names of its in the third clause.

This is too permissive to our taste.

Options to consider:

  • use OSI template and don't allow any name in the third clause, use the generic copyright holder instead
  • restrict the content of the {company} to only:
    • the (optional) followed by
    • The copyright holder extracted from the copyright notice at the top of the file

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