Suggestion: add 'Expat' as a nickname for 'MIT' license?

[jayaddison]

Would it make sense to add nickname: Expat (where Expat is not an SPDX identifier) to the MIT License metadata in this repository?

[jayaddison]

(in a sense, I think that the Expat license is the MIT license, perhaps even less-ambiguously so -- the nickname field seems like a way to (begin?) representing that within this project)

[mlinksva]

Seems reasonable to me, feel free to open a PR.

[jayaddison]

Thanks, will do 👍

[jayaddison]

Hm. After looking again at some of the templates, the naive quick fix I had in mind would likely be confusing for site visitors (for example: the description of projects that use a given license would mention Expat (or, perhaps MIT (Expat)), but that wouldn't provide much context about why the nickname exists or how it relates to MIT.

This could require a bit more analysis - I probably should've spent more time thinking about it before creating this thread.

Perhaps something more like alternative-names-for, or permitting multiple nicknames, might help.