Proposal to amend ZIP 1014 to require MIT license for core code

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I support the spirit of this suggestion, in light of the dynamics we now experience: an ill-reasoned harmful license is being forced on the community despite the strong objections of cognizant participants.

(And yes, I share the blame for the optimistically permissive phrasing in ZIP 1014, which originated in my ZIP 1012 proposal.)

This will have a grave cost, in preventing some projects from being funded, because they need to, e.g., include GPL code. Permitting MIT or GPL seems better.

Maybe OSI in general, as a MUST rather than a SHOULD? Restricted to their Popular Licenses list to minimize fragmentation?

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