I’m 100% in favor of a blanket public domain identifier.
Ria Farrell Schalnat (she/her) Open Source Program Manager ria.schal...@hpe.com<mailto:ria.schal...@hpe.com> [Text Description automatically generated with low confidence] From: Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org <Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org> On Behalf Of Richard Fontana Sent: Tuesday, May 9, 2023 7:38 PM To: mc...@lexpan.law Cc: J Lovejoy <opensou...@jilayne.com>; SPDX-legal <Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org> Subject: Re: public domain dedication variants in the wild (found in Fedora) On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 2:38 PM McCoy Smith <mc...@lexpan.law<mailto:mc...@lexpan.law>> wrote: FWIW, maybe this is an opportunity for SPDX to lead? Most of these look similar, but not the same. I’m guessing a lot of the similar ones would have the same legal effect, although the more dissimilar ones, maybe not (depending on where you are, and as we know some places don’t recognize PD). Might it be useful for SPDX to adopt a single PD tag for what they think is the best format for such a dedication, and see if that leads to adoption of that format/text, rather than everyone writing their own? I think most of these public domain dedications are relatively ancient, dating from a time in FOSS when such permission grants were very common. Nowadays someone with similar inclinations would probably be more likely to reach for the Unlicense or CC0 or MIT-0 or 0BSD or a simple permissive license like the MIT license. So SPDX adopting a preferred format would probably not have much impact. Richard -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#3370): https://lists.spdx.org/g/Spdx-legal/message/3370 Mute This Topic: https://lists.spdx.org/mt/98776908/21656 Group Owner: spdx-legal+ow...@lists.spdx.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.spdx.org/g/Spdx-legal/unsub [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
