[License-review] Please rename "Free Public License-1.0.0" to 0BSD.
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Wed Oct 17 16:32:19 UTC 2018
On 10/16/2018 09:28 PM, Nigel T wrote:
> Rob,
>
> My apologies, if the link is to OpenBSD then there’s a linkage to BSD even if it’s ISC and you need to squint a little. I should have remembered toybox anyway.
>
> If we want to completely confuse everyone we can call it oBSD...I kid...I kid.
>
> Objection flip flopped because I made a mistake and didn’t check the background
> story as I should have. 0BSD is more marketable but honestly if we had a series
> of licenses called SC0 (software commons 0), SC-BY, SC-BY-SA, etc then software
> licensing wouldn’t seem so scary anymore.
I'm trying to make software licensing be less scary. I wrote about this in the
github thread, but the most concise version is probably the 3 minutes on it in
my 2013 presentation, starting at 15 minutes and 9 seconds in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=15m09s
It's really easy for me to do long infodumps about my thinking, and I spent
_years_ figuring out what to do after GPLv3 broke "the GPL" into incompatible
warring camps:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/4/111
So I'll try to avoid adding too much more here. :)
Rob
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