[License-review] Approval request for a New MIT license

[Thorsten Glaser]

Vipin Kumar dixit:

>I am writing to request approval for a new MIT license and the
>associated details.

This looks pretty close to The MirOS Licence (OSI approved), except
for the regression that it is only applicable to software.

/*-
 * Copyright © year, year, year, ...
 *	First M. Last <user at host.domain>
 *
 * Provided that these terms and disclaimer and all copyright notices
 * are retained or reproduced in an accompanying document, permission
 * is granted to deal in this work without restriction, including un-
 * limited rights to use, publicly perform, distribute, sell, modify,
 * merge, give away, or sublicence.
 *
 * This work is provided "AS IS" and WITHOUT WARRANTY of any kind, to
 * the utmost extent permitted by applicable law, neither express nor
 * implied; without malicious intent or gross negligence. In no event
 * may a licensor, author or contributor be held liable for indirect,
 * direct, other damage, loss, or other issues arising in any way out
 * of dealing in the work, even if advised of the possibility of such
 * damage or existence of a defect, except proven that it results out
 * of said person's immediate fault when using the work as intended.
 */

You could possibly exchange the disclaimer on that. (In Germany,
you cannot disclaim malicious intent or gross negligence, which
is why it’s excluded here.) Maybe changing the disclaimer doesn’t
need explicit approval.

bye,
//mirabilos
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