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Re:Deprecation Notice: MIT and BSD licenses by scrollaway on Saturday March 09, 2019 @02:53PM (#19348102)
I would also have dismissed the article given how much it seems to advertise Blue Oak, but Mitchell is a good "argument from authority" on licenses.

More info on Blue Oak: https://writing.kemitchell.com/2019/03/07/Blue-Oak-Council.h...

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Re:Deprecation Notice: MIT and BSD licenses by kemitchell on Saturday March 09, 2019 @11:46PM (#19350336)
Don't take a word I say "on authority".

Read the license. Read what others say about it. Read about the law. Apply your mind.

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Re:Deprecation Notice: MIT and BSD licenses by fanf2 on Sunday March 10, 2019 @09:15AM (#19351830)
It isn’t listed as an Open Source licence which rules it out for most purposes. https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical
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Re:Deprecation Notice: MIT and BSD licenses by majewsky on Sunday March 10, 2019 @10:46AM (#19352181)
To be fair, it appears to have hit 1.0 just hours ago, so this may just mean that OSI doesn't know about it yet.
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Re:Deprecation Notice: MIT and BSD licenses by latk on Monday March 11, 2019 @05:55AM (#19357765)
OSI generally requires that the license steward/author submits the license for review if they want it to be approved.

Upon being asked about this by OSI President Simon Phipps, Kyle Mitchell responded that Blue Oak has no plans to seek approval (https://twitter.com/kemitchell/status/1104579340732264448). I would have found anything else surprising, given that last month Mitchell had this to say about the OSI (in the context of SSPL review):

> I've lost confidence in this body's ability to make rigorous decisions, or even facilitate focused debate, […]. So I've otherwise stopped responding, and focused my efforts where collective time and talent have hope of yielding practical results.

Source: http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.o... Context: https://opensource.org/LicenseReview022019

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