<html><body><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Pam, Misty,</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>this was also my immediate reaction. Why another MIT-style license [0], the hundredth or so?</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Also, even for someone who has not has not bothered reading the review process requirements, a brief of introduction to oneself and a signature of a real person representing the entity would probably be a modicum of courtesy required in all kinds of communication, including this one.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>The lack of quality in the licensing text itself is also apparent, never mind the absolute lack of the necessary information accompanying the submission.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>EG, the grant says " distribute the Software \u2026free of charge". One wonders what's the ellipsis for, whether "free of charge" refers to the distribution right, the entirety of rights or, conversely, the permission. If it's a condition as in "distribute but only free of charge", this would be an incompatible limitation with #1 (The license shall not restrict any party from *selling* or giving away the software [...]") and probably #6. </div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I would advise to withdraw the submission and reconsider the entire process, and most of all please consider the option to adopt one of the many similar already approved licenses, on non-proliferation grounds. </div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>All the best,</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Carlo, in his personal capacity.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>[0] my personal AI-based license analysis tool gives 84% overlapping with MIT; the non overlapping part is the one that probably would create more problems.</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>Da: </b>"Pamela Chestek" <pamela@chesteklegal.com><br><b>A: </b>"license-review@lists.opensource.org" <license-review@lists.opensource.org><br><b>Inviato: </b>Luned́, 22 dicembre 2025 0:21:08<br><b>Oggetto: </b>Re: [License-review] Approval of my own License,Misty Foundation License 1.7:<br></blockquote></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><p>Hi Misty Foundation,</p>
<p>You should read this page,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://opensource.org/licenses/review-process" target="_blank">https://opensource.org/licenses/review-process</a>, and submit the
license with the additional information as outlined on that
webpage. My quick take on it is that it a much poorer version of a
number of other licenses out there, so pay particular attention to
the request that a license submitter must "describe what gap not
filled by currently existing licenses that the new license will
fill."</p>
<p>Even at a glance, this license is suboptimal. For starters, it
appears to have a typo at the end of the definition for
"Software." By today's standards the copyright grant doesn't have
sufficiently inclusive language and it also doesn't include a
patent license grant, which would be good to think about.</p>
<div class="moz-signature">Pamela S. Chestek<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/19/2025 3:59 AM, mistypigeon via
License-review wrote:<br>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><em>Misty
Foundation License 1.7</em></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><em>Copyright
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><strong><em>Software</em></strong><em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> refers to the source code,
binary files, and documentation provided under this
License.Hi</span></em></span></p>
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(the creator of the Software) listed above.</span></em></span></p>
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