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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>FWIW, this seems to be the author/steward of this license: </span><a href="https://romanrm.net/mit-zero">https://romanrm.net/mit-zero</a> She/he isn’t claiming it’s OSI-approved. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>There are some other places where that claim is being made though (probably under the logic that if “MIT” is approved, all variants must be).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The license looks like it was created in July 2010, the approval archives go back to 2007, so if it was submitted, it should be in those archives.<span style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='color:windowtext'> License-review <license-review-bounces@lists.opensource.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Pamela Chestek<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 26, 2019 5:31 AM<br><b>To:</b> license-review@lists.opensource.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [License-review] Approval Status of MIT-0<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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><br>Pam<br> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Pamela Chestek<br>Chair, License Review committee<br>Open Source Initiative<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>On 12/26/2019 3:34 AM, Akhil Indurti wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>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? <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thank You and Happy Holidays,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Akhil Indurti<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>License-review mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:License-review@lists.opensource.org">License-review@lists.opensource.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-review_lists.opensource.org">http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-review_lists.opensource.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>