“Shen has transitioned to BSD”

A modified BSD master licence, unfortunately, which significantly negates the potential advantages changing the license.

See lots of discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8992340

Some additional discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8990537

And of course recent discussion in the Google Group mailing list, most recently this topic: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/qilang/qGHfX3Iimqk/PBQerwjM2...

Which indicates there will be a further change to the master license with "END OF LICENCE" text added before the recently expanded "Commentary", which in theory will further weaken the modification (I haven't analyzed the expanded Commentary yet so I don't have a considered opinion on this).

Which would still require a "run this by legal" even if your org has an established policy on the 3 clause BSD licence, but that should be easy. Certainly not guaranteed, certainly a lot worse than a pure 3 clause BSD, but now, maybe not fatally crippling to the nascent Shen community. We'll see.