[License-review] [Resubmission] ModelGo Zero License, Version 2.0

[Pamela Chestek]

On 5/14/2025 1:47 PM, McCoy Smith wrote:
>
> One concern that I have with this license is the nomenclature. "Zero" 
> or "-0" with open source licensing typically means something akin to 
> public domain or at least a license that imposes no (i.e., "zero") 
> obligations on the recipient of the license.
>
> The latest draft of this license does impose at least one obligation: 
> in Section 2.2(a)(i) the licensee is obligated to pass along a copy of 
> the license with any distribution.
>
> Some people may not find this a big deal and relatively easy to comply 
> with (particularly if/when this gets into SPDX), but there has been 
> for quite some time a contention (which a recent informal poll I did 
> at an event had surprisingly high traction) that that sort of 
> condition (which is in BSD & MIT) causes any code upon which that 
> license is attached to be perpetually under that license's terms. 
> That's not really  a -0 license.
>
> I'd suggest that at a minimum, either Section 2.2(a)(i) be removed to 
> make it a true -0 license, or this license have a different name 
> attached to it ("permissive"? although there are those object to the 
> use of that term for only non-copyleft licenses; "non-reciprocal"?).
>
I agree with this.

Pam

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