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diff --git a/www/license.html b/www/license.html index f250410f..55521e73 100755 --- a/www/license.html +++ b/www/license.html @@ -28,17 +28,18 @@ OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.</p> <a href=http://unlicense.org>unlicense</a>, and <a href=http://wtfpl.net/>wtfpl</a>, the intent is to effectively place the licensed material into the public domain, which after decades of FUD (such as the time OSI's ex-lawyer compared -<a href=http://www.cod5.org/archive/>placing code into the public domain</a> to +<a href=https://web.archive.org/web/20160530090006/http://www.cod5.org/archive/>placing code into the public domain</a> to <a href=http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6225>abandoning trash by the side of a highway</a>) is considered somehow unsafe. But if some random third party <a href=https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/blob/master/libtomcrypt/LICENSE>takes public domain code</a> and slaps <a href=http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/gnuzip/gnuzip-25/gzip/gzip.c>some other license on it</a>, then it's fine.</p> -<p>To work around this perception, the above license is a standard 2-clause BSD -license <a href=https://github.com/landley/toybox/commit/ee86b1d8e25cb0ca9d418b33eb0dc5e7716ddc1e>minus the half sentence</a> -requiring text copied verbatim into derived works. If 2BSD is -ok, the 0BSD should be ok, despite being equivalent to placing code in the +<p>To work around this perception, the above license is the +<a href=https://www.openbsd.org/policy.html>OpenBSD suggested template +license</a>, <a href=https://github.com/landley/toybox/commit/ee86b1d8e25cb0ca9d418b33eb0dc5e7716ddc1e>minus the half sentence</a> +requiring the license text be copied verbatim into derived works. If 2BSD is +ok, then 0BSD should be ok, despite being equivalent to placing code in the public domain.</p> <p>Modifying the license in this way avoids the hole android toolbox fell into where @@ -49,4 +50,8 @@ additional restrictions" and BSD's "you must include this large hunk of text" by sticking the two licenses at <a href=http://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/networking/ping.c?id=887a1ad57fe978cd320be358effbe66df8a068bf>opposite ends of the file</a> and hoping nobody noticed.</a> + +<p>Note: I asked <a href=https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/kirkmck.html>Kirk McKusick</a> for permission to call this a BSD license at +a conference shortly before I started using the name, +and <a href=0bsd-mckusick.txt>again in 2018</a>.</p> <!--#include file="footer.html" --> |