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

[Rob Landley]

On 10/16/2018 12:37 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 10/16/2018 05:26 AM, Richard Fontana wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I'm still not keen on calling anything "BSD" that has no historical
> relationship to Berkeley, but apparently I'm alone in that opinion.

This was covered in the original SPDX approval thread before anything was ever
submitted to OSI:

https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/spdx-legal/2015-June/001456.html

> It was a 2 clause OpenBSD license linked as "License Template" from the
> top of http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html with half a sentence removed
> (ala https://github.com/landley/toybox/commit/ee86b1d8e25c).

Here is where I got the license text from, off of OpenBSD's website:

https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/share/misc/license.template?rev=HEAD

If it helps, Kirk McKusick was in the audience for my 2013 Ohio Linuxfest talk
on the Rise and Fall of Copyleft. He gave the closing keynote at that
conference:
https://archive.org/download/OhioLinuxfest2013/82-Marshall_Kirk_McKusick-Building_and_Running_an_Open_Source_Community.mp3

Since my licensing talk was related to the material he planned to speak about at
the end of the conference, he came up and talked to me after my talk, and since
computer history's a hobby of mine anyway (https://landley.net/history/mirror I
knew of him from https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/kirkmck.html
but had never met him in person before) I was happy to speak to him about
licensing issues and his work attracting younger developers to BSD development
for pretty much the entire next panel slot (at least an hour).

Yes, we discussed the toybox license and my plans for it. I _think_ that talk
with him was where I got the idea of calling it "zero clause BSD", but I didn't
take notes (we were just standing around outside the room) so can't be sure. I
can try to pull him into this thread if you like, but doing so seems kind of
ridiculous overkill?

Rob