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

[VM Brasseur (OSI)]

Hello, all.

The overall tone of this discussion is trending toward combative, which will not help to resolve the question at hand.

I assure everyone that OSI is not trying to "push" anything here. While individual directors may have their preferences in this question, the organisation as a whole does not beyond "do what is judged through open discussion to be best."

Please assume best intentions of all participants in these discussions and keep them productive rather than accusatory.

Thank you.

--V

> On 19 Oct 2018, at 10:38, John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> wrote:
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> 
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> 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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