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

Richard Fontana richard.fontana at opensource.org
Wed Oct 17 13:55:50 UTC 2018


On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 01:03:07PM +0200, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 10/16/2018 10:36 PM, Rob Landley wrote:

> >> 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
> 
> Ah, OK. I was going off Richard's statement that it was derived from ISC
> and had no textual relationship to the BSD license.  If it has a textual
> relationship, then I withdraw my objection.

It does not have a textual relationship to the BSD license (at least
beyond what I'd consider paraphrase). It's the ISC license. At some
point OpenBSD recommended use of the ISC license.

Richard




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