<story><title>MIT-0 License</title><url>https://github.com/aws/mit-0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idealmedtech</author><text>[Disclaimer: not a lawyer, this is not legal advice]&lt;p&gt;I understand they&amp;#x27;re trying to get rid of cascading attribution requirements for enterprise (which is part of the reason NIH syndrome became so prevalent!), BUT I really dislike this incarnation for two primary reasons:&lt;p&gt;1. It has conflicting branding. How is a newbie gonna know the difference? How many will misclick it because it sorts first, or because they don&amp;#x27;t know it&amp;#x27;s different than true MIT?&lt;p&gt;2. Some users may read 0 suffix as &amp;quot;original&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;optimal&amp;quot;, or &amp;quot;first&amp;quot; (0-index), further polluting the branding.&lt;p&gt;If they rereleased under another name these problems would be alleviated, but I don&amp;#x27;t think their intentions are entirely altruistic here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paxys</author><text>Releasing under a different name would have the opposite problem. No one would use it because they wouldn&amp;#x27;t know that it was the MIT license with the attribution condition removed, even if that was exactly what they were looking for.&lt;p&gt;The 0- convention is also somewhat standard for this category of licenses (like 0BSD).</text></comment>
<story><title>MIT-0 License</title><url>https://github.com/aws/mit-0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idealmedtech</author><text>[Disclaimer: not a lawyer, this is not legal advice]&lt;p&gt;I understand they&amp;#x27;re trying to get rid of cascading attribution requirements for enterprise (which is part of the reason NIH syndrome became so prevalent!), BUT I really dislike this incarnation for two primary reasons:&lt;p&gt;1. It has conflicting branding. How is a newbie gonna know the difference? How many will misclick it because it sorts first, or because they don&amp;#x27;t know it&amp;#x27;s different than true MIT?&lt;p&gt;2. Some users may read 0 suffix as &amp;quot;original&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;optimal&amp;quot;, or &amp;quot;first&amp;quot; (0-index), further polluting the branding.&lt;p&gt;If they rereleased under another name these problems would be alleviated, but I don&amp;#x27;t think their intentions are entirely altruistic here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>8note</author><text>Usually when I see 0 tagged on something, it&amp;#x27;s actually chronologically after, but something more fundamental.&lt;p&gt;The 0th law of thermodynamics is the main example</text></comment>