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nazar-pc / PickMeUp

Really simple, powerful, customizable and lightweight standalone datepicker
BSD Zero Clause License
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Added license file for 0BSD #216

Closed ghost closed 5 years ago

ghost commented 5 years ago

Hey Nazar sweet looking date picker! Dark UIs are my favorite.

I'm working on getting the OBSD license added to choosealicense.com now that OSI has officially renamed the FPL 1.0.0 to "Zero-Clause BSD".

Your library was suggested as one of the more popular ones on GitHub using 0BSD so I've prepared this pull request to help satisfy the conditions necessary for a license to be listed on that website. I used a lowercase filename with a txt file extension to match your other files—hope that's okay and you don't mind adding this to your site either via merge or in a separate commit.

waldyrious commented 5 years ago

@jhabdas just for the sake of recognizability, I'd add the license title at the top (as is already customary with MIT, etc.)

nazar-pc commented 5 years ago

The idea behind changing license of multiple libraries and tools I develop to 0BSD was to: 1) Remove words "copyright", since it is literally not applicable in case of 0BSD and I'm not going to start litigation against anyone on license violation anyway 2) Stop changing year in typical copyright notice in every file every year

Hence I'm reluctant to accept this PR as is.

I'll accept PR is you don't mind removing copyright line from license file and correcting readme to: 1) Remove mention of Free Public License 1.0.0 2) Correct link to 0BSD

nazar-pc commented 5 years ago

Also I like word "license" not much more than "copyright", that was why I removed license file a while ago entirely, but I'm fine bringing it back.

ghost commented 5 years ago

@nazar-pc Removed copyright line and updated readme. I'm also not a fan of the word "license" so I've renamed the file to copying.md to preserve gnu vestiges and align the file extension with your other plain text files.

@waldyrious I brought up your idea here but as it stands license title is not part of the license text.

nazar-pc commented 5 years ago

Nice, happy to see GitHub supports copying.md file

ghost commented 5 years ago

Thanks!

waldyrious commented 5 years ago

as it stands license title is not part of the license text.

@jhabdas IIUC licenses like MIT also don't require the title to be legally valid -- MIT, in particular, says:

the above copyright notice and this permission notice (including the next paragraph) shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

In any case, adding the title has no legal consequence, since the entire license text is still present — tools like licensee are indeed quite permissive in that regard precisely because of this. Since the title does make the license file more human-friendly (and helps disseminating the license), I'd still advocate for its inclusion.