<div dir="ltr">Rob, Josh,<br><br>Thank you for the detailed feedback. I have thought about your points carefully, and I agree with them.<br><br>Rob, your explanation about the chain-of-custody problem is correct. A patent grant without attribution cannot be tracked, and the "shall not apply to any other combinations" language from BSD-2-Clause-Patent does not work in a license that explicitly permits unattributed copying. I see now that this makes the grant effectively void upon modification, which defeats its purpose.<br><br>Josh, your question about the specific use case is also fair. I could not describe a real project that needs this combination, and I understand why this looks like license proliferation.<br><br>I am withdrawing the 0BSD-P draft. I will not submit it to OSI.<br><br>I am now exploring a different problem: the loss of attribution in AI supply chains. I will post a separate pre-submission discussion for that shortly.<br><br>Thank you again for taking the time to respond.<br><br>--<br>Mikhail Chernov</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">\u0441\u0440, 14 \u043e\u043a\u0442. 2026\u202f\u0433. \u0432 23:53, Josh Berkus <<a href="mailto:josh@berkus.org">josh@berkus.org</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
>> I am considering submitting the Zero-Clause BSD with Patent Grant <br>
>> (0BSD-P)<br>
>> to OSI for approval. Before doing so, I would like to get feedback <br>
>> from the<br>
>> community.<br>
<br>
Aside from Rob's objections, all of which I agree with, you would also <br>
need to obtain permission from a BSD foundation to call this license <br>
"0BSD" anything, or you'd have to change the name. Rob did get that <br>
permission.<br>
<br>
That aside: why are you doing this? It's not the goal of the OSI to <br>
have licenses for every possible combination of conditions; if they <br>
wanted that, the OSI could just build its own license-generating LLM and <br>
be done with it. So, do you have a specific use for a license with <br>
patent grants and no attribution? Can you describe that use?<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Josh Berkus<br>
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