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

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Wed Oct 17 06:00:30 UTC 2018


Quoting Nigel T (nigel.2048 at gmail.com):

> The amusing thing is despite that withdrawal, many folks apparently
> believe that the OSI explicitly rejected CC0 anyway and yet it’s still
> widely used even with that mistaken belief...

I'd call that 30% amusing, 70% tragic, because Creative Commons warns
people that CC0 is not a _software_ licence, and ought not to be used as
one.  (I paraphrase, having not gone to re-find the link.)




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