Revised License Committee Report for March 2009

Donovan Hawkins hawkins at cephira.com
Sat Mar 21 01:21:55 UTC 2009


On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, John Cowan wrote:

> What's more, even CC0 *probably* does not protect the person who reuses
> the code against license termination by the relatives specified in 17
> U.S.C. ???203(a)(2).

Does any open source license protect against that? Most of the discussions 
I found on Google were from several years ago, but the opinion at the time 
seemed a bit grim.

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