[License-review] Non-binding straw poll: Do you think CC0 should be approved?

[Lawrence Rosen]

> If you wish to participate in this straw poll, please follow up to this
> mail with "+1" if you think CC0 should be approved, or "-1" *followed
> by the reason* if you don't think it should be approved.

+1. This doesn't mean I like the CC0 license for software or that I would
recommend it, but that's not the criteria for OSI approval.

/Larry


> -----Original Message-----
> From: license-review-bounces at opensource.org [mailto:license-review-
> bounces at opensource.org] On Behalf Of Karl Fogel
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 10:21 PM
> To: License Review
> Subject: [License-review] Non-binding straw poll: Do you think CC0
> should be approved?
> 
> The CC0 thread was so enormous that it could sometimes be hard to
> distinguish between the volume and the content behind each point made.
> 
> Now, the approval process is not a matter of majority vote, but still
> I'm curious to see how many people felt the 4a objection (or any other
> problem) was serious enough to warrant rejection, and how many would
> approve anyway.  Knowing these ratios would help us determine whether
> to
> continue investigating, perhaps by bringing in some more legal
> expertise.  (For example, one thing I wanted to do, but didn't have
> time, was bring in the people at the FSF who evaluated CC0 and hear
> their reasoning.)
> 
> If you wish to participate in this straw poll, please follow up to this
> mail with "+1" if you think CC0 should be approved, or "-1" *followed
> by
> the reason* if you don't think it should be approved.
> 
> Any -1 that isn't accompanied by a reason I won't count in my tally.
> (+1 responses have an implicit reason -- that the license fallback
> portion of CC0 is OSD-compatible -- so there's no need to state it).
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Karl
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