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@@ -51,7 +51,14 @@ by sticking the two licenses at
 <a href=http://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/networking/ping.c?id=887a1ad57fe978cd320be358effbe66df8a068bf>opposite ends of the file</a> and hoping nobody
 noticed.</a>
 
-<p>Note: I asked <a href=https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/kirkmck.html>Kirk McKusick</a> for permission to call this a BSD license at
+<p>I asked <a href=https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/kirkmck.html>Kirk McKusick</a> for permission to call this a BSD license at
 a conference shortly before I started using the name,
 and <a href=0bsd-mckusick.txt>again in 2018</a>.</p>
+
+<p>In 2017 while walking 0BSD through the github choose-a-license approval
+process, I copied to my blog two very long posts in the thread
+(<a href=https://landley.net/notes-2017.html#26-03-2017>part one</a>,
+<a href=https://landley.net/notes-2017.html#27-03-2017>part two</a>)
+explaining why the license is like that and what it was trying to
+accomplish. It seems to have <a href=https://github.com/search?q=license%3A0bsd&type=Repositories>been convincing</a>.</p>
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