ISC

The Internet Systems Consortium is

a nonprofit 501(c)(3) public benefit corporation dedicated to supporting the infrastructure of the universal connected self-organizing Internet--and the autonomy of its participants--by developing and maintaining core production quality software, protocols, and operations.

ISC webpage

Software developed at ISC includes BIND, DHCP, INN, Network Time Protocol, OpenReg. The ISC is also known for a software license, the so-called ISC license, which is functionally similar to the MIT license; this license is also the license preferred for new code contributed to OpenBSD.

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Disambiguation

LV: In the old days, ISC also stood for Interative Systems Corp., one of the early commercial Unix vendors. They sold IS/3, based on ATT's System III, with some specialty hardware text terminals for interacting with the system.

Description

Stu:

I have recently switched my license preference from BSD to ISC (Internet Systems Consortium).

The ISC license is (in my words) a modern BSD license. It's also smaller.

In their words: It is functionally equivalent to the 2-clause BSD licence, with language "made unnecessary by the Berne convention" removed.

The license template:

Copyright (c) 4-digit year, Company or Person's Name <E-mail address>

Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES
WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR
ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN
ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.