[License-review] Submitting CC0 for OSI approval

John Cowan cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Sun Feb 19 18:55:33 UTC 2012


Karl Fogel scripsit:

> By the awy, both MIT and BSD contain language strongly implying that
> they are copyright notices and apply only to rights within that domain.

What I said was that these two licenses contain the word "use", which is
a patent rather than a copyright term of art.  So either "use" conveys no
rights, or it conveys a patent license.

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