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

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Tue Oct 16 20:21:03 UTC 2018


Quoting Richard Fontana (fontana at sharpeleven.org):

> 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.

Er?

I'm now a bit confused, because Rob's copy of 'Toybox License' aka 'zero
clause BSD' at https://landley.net/toybox/license.html states that it's 
OpenBSD's 2-clause BSD licence text with the obligation phrase 'provided
that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all
copies' removed.

The links provided appear to bear out that claim.


(Pedantry note:  In the English language, compound adjectives are
traditionally hyphenated for greater clarity.[1]  Give hyphens a chance,
say I!  Because a hot water bottle might or might not be safe to touch,
whereas a hot-water bottle would.  Thus: zero-clause BSD.)

[1] http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/misc.html#analretentive

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