<div dir="ltr">If I'm not mistaken, MIT-0 would probably not be recommended for the same reasons that the unlicense is not.<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">--Ryan<br></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 9:48 PM Tobie Langel <<a href="mailto:tobie@unlockopen.com">tobie@unlockopen.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hi all,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The MIT-0 license[1] is an MIT license with the attribution clause removed. It has notably been used to license example and scaffolding code. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It doesn’t look that it has been approved by the OSI. I couldn’t find it on the licenses page[2].</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I imagine that is has been discussed on license-review@ already, unfortunately I couldn’t find a way to search the archives either. A pointer would be very much appreciated.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If this license hasn’t been rejected in the past, would there be a chance for it to be accepted? It seems like it meets the OSD and fulfills a need that’s hard to meet otherwise. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If so, could I bring it to license-review@ myself given I’m neither a lawyer nor the author of the license?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks all for your help,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">—tobie</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">—-</div><div dir="auto">[1] <br></div><div dir="auto"><div><a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT-0.html" target="_blank">https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT-0.html</a></div></div><div dir="auto">[2] <a href="https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical" target="_blank">https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical</a></div>
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