[License-review] Submitting CC0 for OSI approval

[Bruce Perens]

On 02/17/2012 01:56 PM, Richard Fontana wrote:
> Many licenses are silent on the issue, while several relatively modern 
> licenses include patent license grants of certain sorts.
The licenses that are silent upon the issue of patents are generally 
believed to have an implicit estoppel.

Thorsten Glaser wrote:

>  I think OSI approves copyright licences.

While in practice OSI mostly deals with copyright, their mission is not 
to disregard patent issues. Patent issues would effect most of the OSD 
requirements.

     Thanks

     Bruce
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