[License-review] Svoboda for Approval

[Gregor Pintar]

What about Unlicense? Why it isn't approved?

2012/5/21, Tom Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com>:
> On 05/21/2012 02:43 PM, Gregor Pintar wrote:
>> 2012/5/21, Tom Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com>:
>>> Again, I ask, what problem are you trying to solve?
>>
>> I would like to release my work to "public domain" in any jurisdiction.
>
> The fact that "Public Domain" means so many different things in so many
> different jurisdictions should tip you off that what you want to do is
> not trivial. CC-0 (aside from its patent issues) makes an admirable
> attempt to "workaround" this fact to achieve extremely permissive
> end-results when it is not possible to abandon copyright.
>
> If there was an "easy" way to universally place works in the Public
> Domain (for all meanings of PD), it would already have been done. The
> fact that CC-0 is long is because it is thorough.
>
> ~tom
>
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