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

[Rob Landley]

Thank you very much.

Rob

On 11/14/18 3:45 AM, Richard Fontana wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> The OSI board has decided to rename the Free Public License 1.0.0 to
> "Zero-Clause BSD". The opensource.org website will be updated in due
> course.
> 
> We did this to address concerns about potential confusion over and
> inconsistency surrounding the use of multiple names for the same
> license text.
> 
> The original submitter of the FPL, Christian Bundy, indicated in
> private communication that he did not object to the renaming.
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 06:37:53AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
>> Last year there was a discussion of Github adopting 0BSD, which was derailed by
>> the name confusion.
>>
>>   https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/issues/464
>>
>> That thread contains a discussion between myself (who uses 0BSD in toybox and
>> got SPDX approval under the original name) and the person who sent the license
>> to OSI under a different name after SPDX had already approved 0BSD.
>>
>> Unfortunately, due to the name confusion, Github took no action on the request.
>> Similarly wikipedia reproduces this confusion in its
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_equivalent_license page. There are
>> multiple other examples of this negatively impacting the adoption of the license.
>>
>> I copied my two contributions to the above github thread to my blog, with
>> slightly cleaned up formatting. They explain the issue at length:
>>
>>   http://landley.net/notes-2017.html#26-03-2017
>>
>>   http://landley.net/notes-2017.html#27-03-2017
>>
>> I also spoke to one of OSI's board members (I forget who, he had black hair?) at
>> linuxconf.au a year ago, who suggested I take it up with the board. How do I do
>> that?
>>
>> Rob
>>
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