[License-review] License Review: Modified 0BSD License (Maintenance-Required)

Tue Mar 17 13:45:43 UTC 2026

On Tue, Mar 17, 2026, at 06:56, Vicentte Felipe wrote:
> THE MAINTENANCE OBLIGATION (THE VICENTTE DUTY):
> Unlike the standard 0BSD license, this software is NOT provided "as-is." 
> The Author(s) and/or Distributor(s) accept an affirmative obligation to:
> 1. Review and address reported technical defects and bugs.
> 2. Use best efforts to provide fixes for issues that impair the software’s 
>    intended functionality.

IANAL, but this obligation appears to be functionally pointless. First, I can't imagine any 'distributor' being willing to take on this obligation, so that means software published using this license would not be included in any Linux distribution or be publishable on a well-known package or container repository (PyPI, DockerHub, crates.io).

Second, since this type of license is "accept on use or distribution", and the authors have no idea who is using the software, how could this even be enforced?
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