[License-discuss] Can OSI take stance that U.S. public domain is open source?

[John Cowan]

Simon Phipps scripsit:

> We did not decide against CC0. The discussion was certainly at a low point
> when Creative Commons withdrew it from the approval process, but that's
> what happened, not an OSI denial. Had they persisted, I believe OSI would
> have needed to face the issue of how licenses treat patents.

I stand corrected.

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