[License-discuss] Approval request: Legacy License "MIT No Attribution" or "MIT-0"

[Pamela Chestek]

Hi Mark,


This is the wrong list for submitting a license for approval, that list 
is License-Review. But this license was already submitted on 
License-Review for approval, so it's all set.


Pam


Chair, License Committee
Open Source Initiative

On 5/16/20 2:06 PM, Atwood, Mark via License-discuss wrote:
> This is a request to approve as a legacy license the "MIT No 
> Attribution" or "MIT-0" license as an OSI approved open source license.
>
> Simply, the MIT-0 license is the MIT license with the attribution 
> requirement removed.  As the MIT license is compliant with the Open 
> Source Definition, the MIT-0 license is as well.
>
> SPDX page: https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT-0.html
>
> Please also follow the links about this license in that page.
>
> The MIT-0 license is extensively used by Amazon, for sample code, 
> reference code, workshop code, code in blog posts,  code in 
> documentation, and sample code published to answer sites.   The 
> purpose of the license is to avoid imposing the cost of maintaining 
> attribution on  customers that want to "do the right thing" w.r.t. 
> open source license compliance.
>
> We find it useful because any existing license or project that claims 
> compatibility with MIT is necessarily also compatible with MIT-0.  All 
> I have to say to an open source lawyer or wonk is "MIT with no 
> attribution requirement" and there is no more time wasted discussing it.
>
>
> The text of the license is:
> |Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining 
> a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 
> "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including 
> without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, 
> distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to 
> permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so. THE 
> SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR 
> IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF 
> MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. 
> IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY 
> CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, 
> TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE 
> SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.|
>
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> Mark Atwood <atwoodm at amazon.com>
>
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>
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