[License-review] Submitting CC0 for OSI approval

Bruce Perens bruce at perens.com
Sun Feb 19 00:30:20 UTC 2012


On 02/18/2012 02:35 PM, Henrik Ingo wrote:
> In this light it is interesting to note that the OSD also does not 
> mention any requirement that a receiver of a piece of software or 
> source code should have the right to use it
Actually, #6 does this. It's stated as a prohibition on restriction of 
use rather than an affirmative requirement. Most of the terms are 
prohibitions rather than affirmative ones. I would probably write it 
differently today. Like I said, no lawyer would help us back then.

     Thanks

     Bruce

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