[License-review] Request for Legacy Approval of MIT No Attribution License

Tobie Langel tobie at unlockopen.com
Fri May 15 16:18:04 UTC 2020


Rationale:

The MIT No Attribution License (SPDX identifier MIT-0 [1]) is a version of
the MIT license with the attribution clause removed.

It is used by Amazon[2] and Airtable[3] to license sample, reference,
teaching, documentation, and scaffolding code.

It was authored independently by Roman Mamedov[4] and Amazon[5].

It has been discussed on license-discuss@[6].

Proliferation category:

Other/Miscellaneous licenses

Please find attached the full text of the license. It is also available at
https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT-0.html.

Thank you for your consideration.

--tobie

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[1]: https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT-0.html
[2]:
http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-April/021781.html
[3]:
http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-May/021790.html
[4]: https://romanrm.net/mit-zero
[5]:
http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-April/021759.html
[6]:
http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2020-April/021754.html
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MIT No Attribution

Copyright <YEAR> <COPYRIGHT HOLDER>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this
software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software
without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify,
merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so.

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 OR COPYRIGHT
HOLDERS 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.


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