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

[Rob Landley]

On 10/16/2018 05:45 AM, Richard Fontana wrote:
> 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.

No, I pointed out it was derived from the OpenBSD suggested template license,
which made it a BSD license.

I surveyed the licenses of all the BSD variants in use and chose the one with
the best wording. It's probably in my blog in 2011 if you're bored, or maybe
somewhere in
http://lists.landley.net/pipermail/aboriginal-landley.net/2011-October/000962.html
or similar. (I can probably dig it up if you really care...)

Rob