[License-review] Please rename "Free Public License-1.0.0" to 0BSD.

Josh Berkus josh at berkus.org
Tue Oct 16 05:37:50 UTC 2018


On 10/16/2018 05:26 AM, Richard Fontana wrote:
> This is putting the cart before the horse but it occurred to me that
> there are about ten different viable ways of spelling out the
> hypothetical future OSI-recognized official license name Zero Clause
> BSD License (to give the way the name is presented on the OSI website
> right now), not counting the SPDX full name "BSD Zero Clause License"
> (which I'd recommend against, unless you envision a future in which
> that's really what people call the license). There should be one
> canonical form of the license name.

I'm still not keen on calling anything "BSD" that has no historical
relationship to Berkeley, but apparently I'm alone in that opinion.

-- 
Josh Berkus



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