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

[Nigel T]

It’s a 30 second change to modify the license title back to what it was as requested and to add a note in the text that the FPL name was the original submission name but the original submitter agreed to the renaming and it is no longer used.

Unless you think Rob is actually lying and there are a bunch of projects out there actually using FPL 1.0 it seems like a complete non-issue to meet the request in a reasonable manner that meets everyone’s requirements.  

There would then be no ambiguity that 0BSD is the only name in use, that FPL was what it was submitted under for OSI in the unlikely scenario someone wants to see the approval discussion and that FPL no longer should be used on new projects to avoid confusion.

It was decided in 2018 to rename the license so the current listing isn’t “100% appropriate”.

> On Apr 6, 2021, at 12:31 PM, Josh Berkus <josh at berkus.org> wrote:
> 
> On 4/6/21 6:36 AM, McCoy Smith wrote:
>> My point is that it was submitted to OSI (starting here:
>> https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2
>> 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.
> 
> Yeah, I'm OK with listing both names, but the idea that we'd remove the
> original approval name, that some people are using, is a non-starter.
> 
> The current listing is 100% appropriate given the history of the
> license, Rob's hyperbole and ill-considered metaphors notwithstanding.
> 
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> Josh Berkus
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