On 1/3/24 23:56, Jeff Johnson wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm wondering the best way to go about distributing some files in > an ICU Licensed project, but without requiring any attribution.
May I suggest Zero Clause BSD: https://spdx.org/licenses/0BSD.html https://opensource.org/license/0bsd/ Created in 2013: https://landley.net/hg/toybox/rev/264b9da809df https://landley.net/toybox/license.html Merged into Android in 2014 (shipped in Android 6.0 "Marshmallow"): https://lwn.net/Articles/629362/ SPDX short identifier "0BSD" was granted in 2015: https://lists.spdx.org/g/spdx/message/967 In the github choose-a-license pulldown since 2019: https://github.com/landley/toybox/blob/master/LICENSE Currently over 50k repositories there licensed under it: https://github.com/search?q=license:0bsd&type=Repositories Zero Clause BSD is the "OpenBSD suggested template license" with half a sentence removed. The openbsd license is actually an ISC derivative (not from berkeley) but OpenBSD is one of the 3 main BSD distros, and I got permission from Kirk McKusick to call it a BSD license in 2013. (He was a Guest of Honor at Ohio Linuxfest's celebration of the 45th anniversary of Unix. I also got to sit next to Doug McIlroy at dinner there.) https://landley.net/toybox/0bsd-mckusick.txt The discussion that led to Github adding 0BSD to choose-a-license had large infodumps about how and why the license came to be, if you're curious: https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/issues/464#issuecomment-289236817 https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/issues/464#issuecomment-289526758 The technical category is "public domain equivalent license": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-domain-equivalent_license The logic for the name was "Your Fortune 500 legal department has already approved 4 clause BSD, 3 clause BSD, and 2 clause BSD... here's another one for rubber stamping." And given that even Microsoft's using it... https://github.com/microsoft/tslib/blob/main/LICENSE.txt Rob _______________________________________________ The opinions expressed in this email are those of the sender and not necessarily those of the Open Source Initiative. Official statements by the Open Source Initiative will be sent from an opensource.org email address. License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@lists.opensource.org http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org
