Re: [License-discuss] Certifying MIT-0

2020-04-25 Thread Mark Atwood
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020, at 10:09, Josh Berkus wrote: > On 4/22/20 7:33 PM, Richard Fontana wrote: > Here is my non-proliferation question: > Is there significant use of MIT-0 in the field? Almost all the sample, reference, teaching, documentation, and "blog" code published by Amazon is MIT-0. Exc

Re: [License-discuss] Certifying MIT-0

2020-04-23 Thread Mark Atwood
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020, at 08:28, McCoy Smith wrote: > You might want to check with original author before you do that, e.g., > https://romanrm.net/mit-zero > BSD0 is already approved: https://opensource.org/licenses/0BSD I hesitate to call them "the original author". Amazon independently "invente

Re: [License-discuss] Certifying MIT-0

2020-04-22 Thread Mark Atwood
Submitting MIT-0 and BSD-0 for OSI approval is on my near term todo list. ..m ___ 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

Re: [License-discuss] How can we as a community help empower authors outside license agreements?

2020-03-20 Thread Mark Atwood
en source". There are important social problems to be be argued about, and then possibly solved. But not using the labor that was invested in solving THIS problem, and certainly not by putting this solved problem at risk. Go build those various "community to empower authors" co

Re: [License-discuss] Thoughts on the subject of ethical licenses

2020-03-16 Thread Mark Atwood
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020, at 18:06, Pamela Chestek wrote: > I wonder if we've reached a point where we're having a discussion about > how to have a discussion. Is that a productive use of time? No, it is not. ..m -- Mark Atwood Princip