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

Richard Fontana fontana at sharpeleven.org
Tue Oct 16 10:45:42 UTC 2018


On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 06:45:03AM +0100, Simon Phipps wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2018, 06:38 Josh Berkus, <josh at berkus.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > I'm still not keen on calling anything "BSD" that has no historical
> > relationship to Berkeley, but apparently I'm alone in that opinion.
> >
> 
> I share this concern. BSD is not related to the license author's trademark
> as far as I am aware.

Back in 2015 I and one or more others pointed out that one problem
with the "Zero Clause BSD" name is that the license is not textually
based on any version of the BSD license -- rather, it is an alteration
of the ISC license. I think Rob Landley has acknowledged this but has
pointed out that use of the well-known "BSD" in the name would assist
with marketing and explaining the license.

Richard



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