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Issue #36 declares the intention to switch to MIT; contributors accept the switch to MIT; the license itself declares that it's MIT. Wherever I grabbed the license when I switched, it had an MIT label but clearly had BSD wording.
The MIT license is regarded as functionally equivalent to the BSD 2-clause license, and variants commonly add wording about using authors and contributors in advertising, which makes it equivalent to BSD-3. However, since the contributors were asked to approve the MIT license, it's easier to pick BSD-3-like MIT license variant than ask everybody to re-approve a BSD license.
Therefore, to avoid further confusion on this matter, I'm replacing the BSD-ish text in the current licenses with the Festival variant of the MIT license. While it's slightly more restrictive than the BSD-3 wording that I originally chose in the switch, it is a recognized MIT variant and includes the advertising clause. I'm also including a URL pointing to the source of the variant.
This may not solve the issue that github auto-detects the licenses using a library that may, or may not, correctly recognize the license, but at least the reasoning will be documented in this issue for future posterity.
This should be a legal NOP that preserves the original intention of choosing an MIT license.
fix license
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