On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 2:38 PM Jerry James <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 6:35 AM Richard W.M. Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes yes I know the public domain isn't a license :-) > > > > Say that we want to write some software (code examples to go along > > with our LGPLv2+ library), and we want to basically give these > > examples away as much as possible without any strings attached for any > > use whatsoever (because the examples encourage people to adopt our > > library), and we also want to include these examples in a Fedora > > package, is there a preferred form of wording that we can put into the > > example files to express this? > > Take a look at CC0. The intent of that license is to make a public > domain declaration in jurisdictions where doing so makes sense, and to > give the effect of a public domain declaration in jurisdictions where > it does not: > > https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ > > The FAQ linked from that page contains some boilerplate text you can > use in your files.
We no longer recommend use of CC0 for such purposes at Red Hat, or for software at all, because of its exclusion of a patent license grant (see CC0 4(a)). The issue of whether a free software/open source license can validly do so has recently become a significant open source policy issue. If the MIT license is considered not permissive enough, you might wish to consider Zero-Clause BSD: https://opensource.org/licenses/0BSD. Richard _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]
