[License-discuss] Unlicense CC0 and patents
Rick Moen
rick at linuxmafia.com
Mon Aug 19 18:27:48 UTC 2013
Quoting Prashant Shah (pshah.mumbai at gmail.com):
> Hi,
'Lo.
> http://unlicense.org/
> http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
>
> What is the difference between CC0 and unlicense ?
CCO contains a well-drafted fallback to permissive terms in the
event that its primary intent runs afoul of local law (as is a serious
problem with such efforts), while Unlicense is a badly drafted crayon
licence, apparently thrown together by software engineers imagining they
can handwave away the worldwide copyright regime by grabbing a bit of
wording from here, a bit from there, throwing the result out in public,
and hoping for the best.
My initial comments on Unlicense:
http://projects.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review/2012-January/000026.html
I never bothered getting to patent complications.
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