> On Nov 7, 2017, at 12:09 PM, Shahar Or <mightyiamprese...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have been asked to change the license of an open source project of mine to > CC0. I'm reluctant to do so, as it is not OSI approved.
That’s a reasonable concern, imho. > https://github.com/mightyiam/shields-badge-data/issues/28 > > Is there good reason for this request, at all? There’s no technical reason. Not permitting incorporation of permissively licensed code (eg MIT) predominantly means throwing away attribution. > I mean, can they not otherwise depend on my software, if their software is > CC0 licensed? If your code used a license that applied to combined works (eg GPL), there’d be an issue. > When I conveyed my reluctance it was suggested that I dual-license. With CC0, I would suggest striking the patent provision or incorporating a patent grant from contributors in some manner. Dual licensing with a permissive is an option too. Cheers! Sean
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