[License-review] For Legacy Approval: Zope Public License v2.1

[McCoy Smith]

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> Subject: Re: [License-review] For Legacy Approval: Zope Public License v2.1
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> Looks somewhat similar, correct. I’m not deep into licensing so I am not sure
> about McCoy’s note about unreusable vs. reusable or if that would make a
> difference for the approval process. I’m just trying to fix a 15 year old
> oversight ;-)
> 
> jens
> 
Just to be clear, this is a better version of the currently-approved license (least of which, because it is reusable), and given the changes are non-legally substantive, I think this request should be approved promptly, and the 2.0 version put into the list of superseded but approved licenses. I'm suggesting, however, that because the new license is reusable, a better category for it would be "Licenses that are redundant with more popular licenses" since this looks to be a variant of BSD-3.