Niklas,
Niklas Cholmkvist wrote:
Previously I've been wanting a Public Domain("PD") map multilicensed
under various PD licenses like CC0, WTFPL etc...but is this even
possible? (waiving attribution requirement)
The "PD is not possible in your country" is a canard that comes up every
now and then. My suggestion is to ignore it as an irrelevant technicality.
In many countries your right to be identified as the author of a work is
inalienable (provided the work passes certain minimum requirements).
This means that you cannot sell this right to someone completely (i.e.
you cannot sell the fact that you are the author of the work).
You can usually sell away most of the other rights that stem from
copyright, i.e. you can sell an exclusive license to use your work to
someone else, and from then on you can't even use your work yourself
without asking them. But this is, in many countries, not possible with
your right to attribution, i.e. the other person cannot buy from you
your right to be named as the author.
But that does not prevent you from granting others a perpetual
non-retractable license to use your work without naming you as the
author - which is something completely different!
Thus, no problems with CC0, WTFPL etc. on that side.
Bye
Frederik
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