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

[Simon Phipps]

On 3 Apr 2014 00:59, "John Cowan" <cowan at mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
>
> Wilson, Andrew scripsit:
>
> > Interesting point, though.  I'd speculate that if the embedded
> > "public license fallback" inside CC0 is ever sent to OSI as a
> > stand-alone license, it would be approved.  It is mighty similar
> > in effect to MIT/BSD/Apache, with the distinctive feature that it
> > explicitly disclaims patent licensing, is clearly copyright-only,
> > and therefore non-duplicative.
>
> I thought that was precisely why we rejected it.
>

As I recall it was withdrawn by CC before we were forced to consider
whether its explicit removal of any implied patent protection was in fact a
breach of the OSD.

S.
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