[License-discuss] Certifying MIT-0

[Pamela Chestek]

Moving discussion to license-review, since the Unlicense is under review.

Pam

On 4/24/2020 10:45 AM, Tom Callaway wrote:
> Ignoring the legal morass of complexity that is the Public Domain, do
> you honestly think there is any practical risk from honoring an
> extreme permissive license where the copyright holder effectively says
> "I disclaim this and invite you to do whatever you want with it". I
> could see a possible concern in a lack of warranty disclaimer, but you
> should be able to add it if you were concerned.
>
> I just don't see the copyright holder having any ground to stand on if
> they were to take you to court after having attempted to abandon their
> copyright.
>
> Obviously, IANAL, so I am genuinely interested in what others think.
>
> Tom
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2020, 10:39 AM Thorsten Glaser <tg at mirbsd.de
> <mailto:tg at mirbsd.de>> wrote:
>
>     Ryan Birmingham dixit:
>
>     >reasons that the unlicense is not.
>
>     “Unlicense” is a PD dedication, not a licence, and therefore
>     not portable to at least a good part of the EU, unusable both
>     for consumers and creators. I have to treat stuff under the
>     “Unlicense” as proprietary unlicenced unusable crap.
>
>     (Sadly, it’s also still listed on the Copyfree site… perhaps
>     I have to start my own curated list… ☹)
>
>     bye,
>     //mirabilos
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