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

[Richard Fontana]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 04:58:17PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> On 10/15/2018 03:12 PM, Richard Fontana wrote:
> > 
> > I just want to make a quick independent inquiry into the issue of
> > which of the two names is more widely used in practice today. As far
> > as I know this would be the first time the OSI has changed the
> > reference name of an OSI-approved license, post-approval.
> 
> Weren't you the one who posted this back in 2015:
> 
> https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/spdx-legal/2015-December/001575.html

Yes ... I guess it was at some slightly later point that I got
comfortable with "0BSD" as an SPDX short identifier for what the OSI
approved as the Free Public License 1.0.0.

> And _now_ you want to do more research?
> 
> > I also want
> > us to be respectful to the submitter of the FPL 1.0.0, Christian
> > Bundy.
> 
> The same Christian Bundy I quoted upthread saying he's ok calling it 0BSD?
> 
> https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/issues/464#issuecomment-288885260
> 
> I.E. this bit you quoted _back_ at me?
> 
> >>> Christian Bundy, the person who submitted the license to OSI, was also
> >>> asked
> >>> about the naming confusion and his contributions to the thread included the
> >>> quotes "we're comfortable using the 0BSD identifier on our license" and
> >>> "we'll
> >>> be happy to stand behind any decision that's made (the same way that we
> >>> support
> >>> SPDX in giving us the "0BSD" identifier)."

I am not sure he was saying he was blanket comfortable with officially
renaming the license Zero[-]Clause BSD or 0BSD or something along
those specific lines, but I've contacted him privately to get his
opinion.

This is putting the cart before the horse but it occurred to me that
there are about ten different viable ways of spelling out the
hypothetical future OSI-recognized official license name Zero Clause
BSD License (to give the way the name is presented on the OSI website
right now), not counting the SPDX full name "BSD Zero Clause License"
(which I'd recommend against, unless you envision a future in which
that's really what people call the license). There should be one
canonical form of the license name.

Richard