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mit license is ambiguous
licenses/mit seems ambiguous. From:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#X11License
"This license is sometimes called the MIT license, but that term is
misleading, since MIT has used many licenses for software."
I'm seeing:
http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:X11
and
http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:Expat
The difference is the advertising clause discussed here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License#Various_versions
It seems that it would be better to rename licenses/mit to licenses/expat and
add licenses/x11 for MIT-style licenses that have the advertising clause. What
say you, tech-pkg@?
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