Richard Fontana:
> The way I read the matching guidelines this license does not actually match 
> to BSD-3-Clause, even though it obviously should.  I think the problem is 
> that I am reading the matching guidelines more literally than they may be 
> intended to be read, but given that this is supposed to be a formal 
> specification I think the matching guidelines ought to be made more precise. 
> For example, if the word "the" is optional in certain contexts for purposes 
> of matching, that ought to be accounted for in the formulation of the 
> matching guidelines.

I think those are bugs in the matching guidelines, not a failure to match ☺.  
If there are bugs, I think they should be fixed!

--- David A. Wheeler

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