Re: [License-discuss] [Osi] [General enquiries] Dual License for CC0

2014-04-02 Thread Kuno Woudt
Hello, On 04/01/2014 10:44 PM, Wilson, Andrew wrote: In a legal system where PD is not recognized, e.g. Europe, then the effective portion of CC0 is presumably not the PD declaration but the permissive license. As other posters have noted, that permissive license is not perceptibly different

Re: [License-discuss] [Osi] [General enquiries] Dual License for CC0

2014-04-02 Thread Wilson, Andrew
Kuno Woud wrote: On 04/01/2014 10:44 PM, Wilson, Andrew wrote: In a legal system where PD is not recognized, e.g. Europe, then the effective portion of CC0 is presumably not the PD declaration but the permissive license. As other posters have noted, that permissive license is not

Re: [License-discuss] [Osi] [General enquiries] Dual License for CC0

2014-04-02 Thread Luis Villa
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Wilson, Andrew andrew.wil...@intel.comwrote: with the distinctive feature that it explicitly disclaims patent licensing IMHO, in the current legal climate, that is not a distinctive feature, it is a distinctive bug. Luis

Re: [License-discuss] [Osi] [General enquiries] Dual License for CC0

2014-04-02 Thread John Cowan
Wilson, Andrew scripsit: Interesting point, though. I'd speculate that if the embedded public license fallback inside CC0 is ever sent to OSI as a stand-alone license, it would be approved. It is mighty similar in effect to MIT/BSD/Apache, with the distinctive feature that it explicitly