[License-review] Fwd: Re: License naming question.

[Rob Landley]

Here's the reply I just got from Kirk McKusick:

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: License naming question.
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:01:40 -0700
From: Kirk McKusick <mckusick at mckusick.com>
Reply-To: Kirk McKusick <mckusick at mckusick.com>
To: Rob Landley <rob at landley.net>

> To: mckusick at mckusick.com
> From: Rob Landley <rob at landley.net>
> Subject: License naming question.
> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 17:57:10 -0500
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We spoke at Ohio Linuxfest back in 2013 (you attended my Rise and
> Fall of Copyleft talk, and then we talked in the hallway afterwards).
> 
> I _think_ I told you about my plans to try to promote public domain
> equivalent licensing, a concept which has a wikipedia page now:

[cut several pages of backstory, happy to forward if you care]...

> My question is: do you object to the name "Zero Clause BSD" for a
> public domain equivalent license that's the OpenBSD suggested
> template license with half a sentence removed?
> 
> If you want to stay out of this, I understand. I'm pretty sure I
> asked you this in 2013 before I started pushing the name, and
> wouldn't have if you'd objected then, but that was long ago and the
> water under the bridge is dead...
> 
> Thanks for your time, sorry that took so long to explain. (And even
> longer if you read the big long github choosealicense thread. :)
> 
> Rob

Thanks for the through explanation of the situation.

I have no objections to the name "Zero Clause BSD" for your license.

I hope that you are successful in getting OSI to change their name
for the license to match what SPDX did.

	Kirk McKusick