Closed hlapp closed 10 years ago
Thanks for catching this, and for the links. Changes made in the commit above. I can't really describe it as "software", but hopefully my adjusted language better reflects the spirit of CC0.
With version 4 out, hopefully CC will revisit the discussion of OSI compliance for CC0.
Much better, but you're still calling it a license :-)
heh, I should have read what I wrote more carefully.
Interestingly, it appears that CC still uses the term license
in it's semantic definition though, the rel
property also calls it a license:
<p xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:vcard="http://www.w3.org/2001/vcard-rdf/3.0#">
<a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">
<img src="http://i.creativecommons.org/p/zero/1.0/88x31.png" style="border-style: none;" alt="CC0" />
</a>
<br />
To the extent possible under law,
<a rel="dct:publisher"
href="http://carlboettiger.info">
<span property="dct:title">Carl Boettiger</span></a>
has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to
<span property="dct:title">lab notebook</span>.
This work is published from:
<span property="vcard:Country" datatype="dct:ISO3166"
content="US" about="http://carlboettiger.info">
United States</span>.
</p>
Yes, because there needs to be consistency in where machines look for terms of reuse.
yeah, that makes sense.
The text in README.md with the following statement is a little misleading, and not conforming to CC's own recommendations:
CC0 is not a license. See here: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/27081 http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0_FAQ#May_I_apply_CC0_to_computer_software.3F_If_so.2C_is_there_a_recommended_implementation.3F
Personally, I also think this makes it inappropriate to include the CC0 text as the file LICENSE, because it isn't a license. For my own practice, I've decided to include it instead under the name COPYING, which remains compliant with GNU Free Software recommendation. See here for an example for how this is applied:
https://github.com/NESCent/Chimp-Recs-FieldObservations