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Moving discussion to license-review, since the Unlicense is under
review.<br>
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Pam<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/24/2020 10:45 AM, Tom Callaway
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<div dir="auto">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.
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<div dir="auto">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.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Obviously, IANAL, so I am genuinely interested
in what others think.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 24, 2020, 10:39 AM
Thorsten Glaser <<a href="mailto:tg@mirbsd.de"
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Birmingham dixit:<br>
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>reasons that the unlicense is not.<br>
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“Unlicense” is a PD dedication, not a licence, and therefore<br>
not portable to at least a good part of the EU, unusable both<br>
for consumers and creators. I have to treat stuff under the<br>
“Unlicense” as proprietary unlicenced unusable crap.<br>
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(Sadly, it’s also still listed on the Copyfree site… perhaps<br>
I have to start my own curated list… ☹)<br>
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bye,<br>
//mirabilos<br>
-- <br>
I believe no one can invent an algorithm. One just happens to
hit upon it<br>
when God enlightens him. Or only God invents algorithms, we
merely copy them.<br>
If you don't believe in God, just consider God as Nature if
you won't deny<br>
existence. -- Coywolf Qi Hunt<br>
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