The MirOS license is a free content license created by The MirOS Project as an alternative to licenses like the ISC license. It is based on licenses like the BSD license but aims to be more explicit and usable for European authors. The license covers any copyrightable work and has been approved by the Open Knowledge Foundation. While not formally reviewed, it is recognized as a free content license. The license aims to provide a single "copycenter-style" license that allows free use and modification without attribution requirements.

1. Presentation of Jason Gabriel Tan
For
ITETHICS

2. What is MirOS
License(MIROS)?
 is a free content licence (for software
and other free cultural works such as
graphical, literal, musical, …) originated
at The MirOS Project for their own
publications because the ISC license
used by OpenBSD was perceived as
having problems with wording and too
America centric.

3. What is MirOS
License(MIROS)?
 It has strong roots in the UCB BSD
licence and the Historical Permission
Notice and Disclaimer with a focus on
modern, explicit, legible language and
usability by European (except UK),
specifically German, authors (while not
hindering adoption by authors from other
legislations). It is a permissive
(“BSD/MIT-style”) licence.

4. What is MirOS
License(MIROS)?
 Another novelty is that this license was specified for
any kind of copyrightable work from the start; as
such, it does not only meet the Open Source
Definition and Debian Free Software Guidelines but
also the Open Knowledge Definition and, in fact, has
been approved by the OKFN long before OSI did.
 The license has not seen formal legal review, but is
listed on ifrOSS’ license centre web pages. The Free
Software Foundation has not formally added the
license as either a free software license or free
documentation license to their pages, but their
software directory has a category for it.

5. Therefore…
 It was later seen that some countries have special
laws for databases, which should be considered in a
later version of this license, if any, to keep it as
generally usable as possible. Patent and trademark
law was intentionally not addressed, only copyright
law, but the general idea is to have one “copycenter”
style license (more specifically, one that says do with
it whatever you want, just don’t pretend it’s not mine
and don’t sue me) for everything. This was partially
prompted by the dilemma of people using the GPL
for documentation because the GFDL is unfree, but
the GPL (and all other traditional Open Source
licenses) was not suited for it.

6. SOURCES:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MirOS_Licen
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