<div dir="auto">I think the proper language would be to grant rights to parents that are "necessarily practiced in the work as issued by the grantor". Because of course anyone can modify the work to exercise any patent claim you happen to own.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">CC0 was never all that strong. It is probably going to be parsed in court as a dedication to the public domain rather than a contract. There is thus some question of how binding the terms could be on the grantor.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And you have not put this particular term through legal review?</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 6, 2024, 02:33 public final Stvk; <<a href="mailto:publicfinalstvk@gmail.com">publicfinalstvk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">So i just want to release my code to public domain and CC0 are an excellent tool for that (the Unlicense are crayon), but the patent problem of CC0 grant me headache</p>
<p dir="ltr">I really don't want me or anyone to be victim of patent submarine so i just edit the CC0 legal code to explictly grant patent and trademark rights then re-name it to "True Zero License" (CC are Creative Commons trademark)</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sorry if this worsen license proliferation but i can't find any license for my need</p>
<p dir="ltr">I need some advice and review from experienced people, here are the license (plain text file)</p>
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