[Toybox] Zero Clause BSD.
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Tue Apr 4 11:37:44 PDT 2023
How big an infodump on the toybox license page do you think I'd need to get
Richard Fontana to stop editing wikipedia[citation needed] with "OSI
retroactively renamed zero clause BSD the Free Free Free All Hail Stallman
months after SPDX approved it under the original name and years after toybox
started using it, but we can do that because we're The License Authority and can
could rename the GPL if we wanted to because all power vests in us"?
Because I can infodump. I have previously infodumped.
https://landley.net/notes-2017.html#26-03-2017
https://landley.net/notes-2017.html#27-03-2017
And yet the OSI loons forget their own history ever six months and do "cleanup"
nonsense:
http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2023-March/022091.html
Which once again gets propagated to wikipedia[citation needed] and suddenly it's
wall to wall "in the free software vs open source debate, this license is
DEFINITELY on the gnu/free side instead of Open BSD meaning it's SO AMAZINGLY
VIRAL you won't ever want to _touch_ it" misinformation and I am SO TIRED of this.
I never wanted OSI to muck with my license. I submitted it to SPDX for a reason.
Before they ever HEARD about it. They don't get to retroactively rename it, but
they continue to insist they have this power, and that their mistake MUST be
memorialized because they are SO IMPORTANT.
Rob
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