[License-discuss] Unlicense CC0 and patents

[Prashant Shah]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
CC0 explicitly states that it doesn't grant patent rights if there are any.
Is this not going against the purpose of putting the work in public domain
itself ?

Regards.
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