[License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: NOSA 2.0, Copyfraud and the US Government

[Thorsten Glaser]

Hi list,

during this discussion I re-read CC0 and came to the conclusion that
it does not license the work itself but the right to act in the stead
of the author (e.g. issue licences on it). That’s interesting and
allows for a _lot_ of possibilities.


Of course…

>Making CC0 + a patent release officially OSI-approved would solve a lot of

… the explicit patent exclusion remains a problem, as there is not
only no licence on the work saying one gets permission to use it
but also an explicit exclusion of patents from the grant.

But this helps with e.g. the question of sublicensing (both in the
EU and USA sense which apparently, another thing I learnt yesternight,
differ from each other) and the question of what exactly a derivative
of a CC0 work needs to be put under.

JFYI, IANAL, etc.
//mirabilos
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