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SPDX ID: MITAdded 2026-04-19
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👤 Sean B. Palmer🗓️ First Submitted: 2007-12-19📅 11 days💬 7 Events
Latest event👤 Zooko📅 2007-12-30Review
Strongly favors an OSI-approved minimal permissive licence, noting database registration forces choosing "BSD" even when a simpler licence is actually used, and would switch to such an approved licence if one existed.OSADL Open Source License Checklist
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MIT License
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associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
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copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the
following conditions:
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portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT
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