<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Akhil and Pam,</div><div><br></div><div>If OSI hasn't approved MIT-0, my guess is that this notation on the SPDX list may have been inadvertent, by copying from the vanilla MIT template [1] when MIT-0 [2] was added to the SPDX license list.</div><div><br></div><div>I see also that the original SPDX submission for MIT-0 [3] noted that OSI had not approved it, so I'm guessing this is what happened.</div><div><br></div><div>I've submitted [4] to make sure we address this for the 3.8 license list release. Thanks for flagging this!<br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Steve<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/blob/master/src/MIT.xml">https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/blob/master/src/MIT.xml</a></div><div>[2] <a href="https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/blob/master/src/MIT-0.xml">https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/blob/master/src/MIT-0.xml</a></div><div>[3] <a href="https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/619">https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/619</a></div><div>[4] <a href="https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/957">https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/957</a></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 8:31 AM Pamela Chestek <<a href="mailto:pamela.chestek@opensource.org">pamela.chestek@opensource.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    While the archives aren't great, I did a lot of searching and
    couldn't find anyplace that the OSI had approved the MIT-Zero
    license. I'm not sure where SPDX got the information. Perhaps others
    on the list might recall it being discussed or approved.<br>
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    Pam<br>
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    <div>Pamela Chestek<br>
      Chair, License Review committee<br>
      Open Source Initiative</div>
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      On 12/26/2019 3:34 AM, Akhil Indurti wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">MIT-0 (alternatively worded "MIT-Zero" or "MIT No
        Attribution") is a permissive CC0-like license for software. On <a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/" target="_blank">https://spdx.org/licenses/</a>, the
        license is listed as "OSI-approved", however after searching
        through the license-review mailing list, I have found no mention
        or record of this license. Additionally, there is no URL
        corresponding to this license on <a href="https://opensource.org/" target="_blank">https://opensource.org/</a>, which
        furthers my uncertainty. Could someone clarify the approval
        status, if any, of MIT-0?
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        <div>Thank You and Happy Holidays,</div>
        <div>Akhil Indurti</div>
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