[License-review] Request for legacy approval: The Unlicense

[osi-license-review at jaeckel.eu]

The license
===========

This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or
distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled
binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any
means.

In jurisdictions that recognize copyright laws, the author or authors
of this software dedicate any and all copyright interest in the
software to the public domain. We make this dedication for the benefit
of the public at large and to the detriment of our heirs and
successors. We intend this dedication to be an overt act of
relinquishment in perpetuity of all present and future rights to this
software under copyright law.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR
OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

For more information, please refer to <http://unlicense.org/>

The rationale
=============

The Unlicense exists since 10 years [1] to give projects the possibility
to dedicate their code into the public domain in jurisdictions that
don't have an understanding of the public domain. The homepage at
https://unlicense.org/ lists a wide variety of software that already
uses said license. A search on GitHub for projects using The Unlicense
[2] returns by the time of writing 133,188 repositories using it (not
including forks of repositories).

Proliferation category
======================

Licenses that are popular and widely used or with strong communities

Reasoning for this category
---------------------------

e.g. the EPL1.0 and EPL2.0 licenses together don't have half of the
number of repositories (38,117 [3] resp. 12,509 [4]) and they fall as
well under this category.




Thank you for your work and considering the approval of The Unlicense to
the wide and well-chosen variety of Open Source Licenses.


Kind regards,
Steffen Jaeckel


[1] https://ar.to/2010/01/set-your-code-free
[2]
https://github.com/search?q=license%3Aunlicense&type=Repositories&ref=advsearch&l=&l=
[3]
https://github.com/search?q=license%3Aepl-1.0&type=Repositories&ref=advsearch&l=&l=
[4]
https://github.com/search?q=license%3Aepl-2.0&type=Repositories&ref=advsearch&l=&l=