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license says MIT at first but it's a BSD style licese #147

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ghost opened this issue Aug 24, 2020 · 2 comments
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license says MIT at first but it's a BSD style licese #147

ghost opened this issue Aug 24, 2020 · 2 comments
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ghost commented Aug 24, 2020

fix license

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Thanks for recording this; it's been a discussion in the chat room that hasn't been well documented.

Issue #36 declares the intention to switch to MIT; contributors accept the switch to MIT; the license itself declares that it's MIT. Wherever I grabbed the license when I switched, it had an MIT label but clearly had BSD wording.

The MIT license is regarded as functionally equivalent to the BSD 2-clause license, and variants commonly add wording about using authors and contributors in advertising, which makes it equivalent to BSD-3. However, since the contributors were asked to approve the MIT license, it's easier to pick BSD-3-like MIT license variant than ask everybody to re-approve a BSD license.

Therefore, to avoid further confusion on this matter, I'm replacing the BSD-ish text in the current licenses with the Festival variant of the MIT license. While it's slightly more restrictive than the BSD-3 wording that I originally chose in the switch, it is a recognized MIT variant and includes the advertising clause. I'm also including a URL pointing to the source of the variant.

This may not solve the issue that github auto-detects the licenses using a library that may, or may not, correctly recognize the license, but at least the reasoning will be documented in this issue for future posterity.

This should be a legal NOP that preserves the original intention of choosing an MIT license.

xxxserxxx added a commit that referenced this issue Aug 24, 2020
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Commit is on the i18n branch; it'll be merged with master in the next release.

@xxxserxxx xxxserxxx added this to the v4.1.0 milestone Aug 25, 2020
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