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kornelski / imgref

A trivial Rust struct for interchange of pixel buffers with width, height & stride
https://lib.rs/crates/imgref
Apache License 2.0
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please consider relicensing this project - use of CC0 for source code is now discouraged #19

Closed decathorpe closed 1 year ago

decathorpe commented 1 year ago

The legal status / acceptance of the CC0-1.0 license has recently changed. It is now considered to not be a "good" license for Open Source code due to the lack of an explicit patent waiver.

The application for CC0-1.0 to become an OSI-approved license was withdrawn after receiving criticism, and it is now officially no longer considered an acceptable license for source code for projects that are packaged for Fedora Linux.

Historically, many other projects have followed the Fedora Project's lead on issues like this, so I expect CC0-1.0 to soon lose its status as an acceptable FOSS license across the ecosystem. For more background, there's an article on The Register.

EDIT: Alternatives to CC0-1.0 might be the Unlicense (both OSI-approved and FSF-libre, also a Public Domain dedication, similar to CC0-1.0), MIT-0 (OSI-approved, but not FSF-libre), or 0BSD (OSI-approved, but not FSF-libre).

kornelski commented 1 year ago

I've added Apache-2.0, so you can have all my 2d array patents :)