> On Aug 17, 2022, at 4:22 PM, McCoy Smith <mc...@lexpan.law> wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Sebastian Crane <seabass-lab...@gmx.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2022 3:06 PM
>> To: Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org; 'Warner Losh' <i...@bsdimp.com>; McCoy
>> Smith <mc...@lexpan.law>
>> Subject: Re: public domain dedications proliferation
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>> It's interesting that you mention CC0, as it has recently been decided that
>> CC0
>> is no longer suitable for Fedora code packages due to its explicit non-grant
>> of
>> patent licences. I imagine other distributions will follow suit eventually,
>> which
>> might potentially leave a gap: for something as permissive as 0BSD but as
>> rigorous (regarding interpretation and patent licences) as the GPL.
>>
> I think it'd be better to have a CC0+Patent. I've raised that concept with
> them a couple of times, but they were too busy or didn't have the internal
> consensus to do something like that, although I tried again recently with
> their new General Counsel so there may be again hope they'd pick it up.
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> As highly as I think of myself (as perhaps you Sebastian do of yourself), I
> kind of feel like if it's just two people on the internet putting something
> together it might not have as much traction as if a well-respected copyright
> freedom-respecting non-profit did it instead.
really, McCoy, you are not going to suggest
https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause-Patent.html ?!? Don’t be coy now… :)
(McCoy drafted that license, for those who are not aware.)
J.
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