[License-discuss] Certifying MIT-0

[Richard Fontana]

Hi Tobie,

There was a thread on license-review about MIT-0 in December, beginning here:
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2019-December/004576.html
It was never submitted for approval, but apparently it was
inadvertently listed as OSI-approved on the SPDX license list, which
has since been corrected.
https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/957

Richard


On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 9:48 PM Tobie Langel <tobie at unlockopen.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> The MIT-0 license[1] is an MIT license with the attribution clause removed. It has notably been used to license example and scaffolding code.
>
> It doesn’t look that it has been approved by the OSI. I couldn’t find it on the licenses page[2].
>
> I imagine that is has been discussed on license-review@ already, unfortunately I couldn’t find a way to search the archives either. A pointer would be very much appreciated.
>
> If this license hasn’t been rejected in the past, would there be a chance for it to be accepted? It seems like it meets the OSD and fulfills a need that’s hard to meet otherwise.
>
> If so, could I bring it to license-review@ myself given I’m neither a lawyer nor the author of the license?
>
> Thanks all for your help,
>
> —tobie
>
> —-
> [1]
> https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT-0.html
> [2] https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical
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