Towards an OSI-approved "waive all rights" software license

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Karl Fogel <kfogel at red-bean.com> writes:
> I think the simplest possible "waive all rights" license already exists,
> in the the New (Simplified 2-Clause) BSD License [1]:
>
>   http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license
>
> It doesn't actually require attribution; it does require that the
> license text itself be reproduced with the sources, as you point out.

Not just the license text, and not just the source:

  Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
  this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

  Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
  documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

The ISC license is equivalent, but significantly shorter.

> For "waive all rights", CC0 is the best thing I can think of.

Or the zlib / libpng license, which, unlike CC0, is actually a software
license.

DES
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