[License-discuss] [License-review] Please rename "Free Public License-1.0.0" to 0BSD... again.

Nigel T nigel.2048 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 6 15:21:01 UTC 2021



> 
> On Apr 6, 2021, at 9:37 AM, McCoy Smith <mccoy at lexpan.law> wrote:
> 
> My point is that it was submitted to OSI (starting here:
> https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2SI
> 015-August/002438.html ending here:
> https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2
> 015-November/002617.html ) under the Free Public License 1.0.0 name, and
> erasing that name is going to make it difficult for people trying to
> understand the approval history, as there will be none for the "0BSD
> license" if you don't at least have a pointer to the approval name.

It seems that the minimal effort thing to do right away is to fix the OSI website and then the Wiki page.

There’s no need to argue in circles about whether to keep the FPL name somewhere in the text of the body INCLUDING why it’s not used anymore and not to make it part of the title again.


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