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

[John Cowan]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 12:47 PM Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:


> What's "misleading" is using a name implying an association with the Free
> Software Foundation and thus copyleft (I.E. "Free Software vs Open
> Source") for
> a public domain equivalent license that's intentionally as far from
> copyleft as
> you can get in this space.
>

What is this nonsense now?  Does any license containing the word "free" in
its
name have to be renamed because of the likelihood of confusion with the
products
of the Free Software Foundation?  I'm sure Larry Rosen will not be happy
(or will be happy, depending) to hear that said of his Academic Free
License.
What next?  Will the free public libraries of the world be sued by the FSF
because
of their use of "free" (as in "free software") and "public" (as in "general
public license")?

I take no position on the essentially trivial matter of the name of this
minor license.
But I cannot let the above go unchallenged.

-- 
John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
Go, and never darken my towels again!
        --Rufus T. Firefly
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