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Switch from Unlicense to CC0 #55

Open emmatebibyte opened 3 months ago

emmatebibyte commented 3 months ago

The Unlicense doesn’t dedicate the source code to the public domain in all jurisdictions. It also is not as battle-tested as CC0.

https://chrismorgan.info/blog/unlicense/ https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2012-January/001386.html

averyterrel commented 4 weeks ago

I agree that switching to a more "real" license would be preferable. 0BSD may be preferable to CC0, since it is significantly shorter and more readable.

emmatebibyte commented 1 week ago

On 2024-09-08 01:05:45 -0700, "Avery" @.***> wrote:

I agree that switching to a more "real" license would be preferable. 0BSD may be preferable to CC0, since it is significantly shorter and more readable.

Does 0BSD have the same global fallback features as CC0 does for countries without or with different public domain systems?

-- Emma Tebibyte (fae/faer) http://tebibyte.media/~emma

averyterrel commented 6 days ago

It doesn't contribute the work to the public domain (explicitly) at all, it just gives "[permission] to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee". See: https://choosealicense.com/licenses/0bsd/

emmatebibyte commented 6 days ago

On 2024-09-29 20:08:53 -0700, "Avery" @.***> wrote:

It doesn't contribute the work to the public domain (explicitly) at all, it just gives "[permission] to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee". See: https://choosealicense.com/licenses/0bsd/

I suppose, then, that it is up to @rmyorston as to which of the two is preferable (if the license is to be changed).

-- Emma Tebibyte (fae/faer) http://tebibyte.media/~emma

rmyorston commented 5 days ago

I don't have an informed opinion on the relative merits of the licences mentioned here.

My preference is to take no action.