[License-discuss] [Osi] [General enquiries] Dual License for CC0

Kuno Woudt kuno at frob.nl
Wed Apr 2 09:00:43 UTC 2014


Hello,

On 04/01/2014 10:44 PM, Wilson, Andrew wrote:
> In a legal system where PD is not recognized, e.g. Europe, then the effective portion of CC0 is presumably not
> the PD declaration but the permissive license.  As other posters have noted, that permissive license
> is not perceptibly different in effect from MIT.

MIT is OSI approved, CC0 is not.

Which in itself may be important to some users.  For example all 
projects hosted on code.google.com are required by Google to use an OSI 
approved license.

-- Kuno.




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