[License-review] veto against Unlicence

[Thorsten Glaser]

Hi *,

sorry, I don’t read l-r these days, but I have real problems
with the “Unlicense”, mostly because it doesn’t grant a licence
under copyright law and PD dedications both aren’t valid in my
legislation *and* don’t cross country boundaries due to Berne
Convention.

Please keep me in Cc, and if needed I can expand more, but I’m
kinda in two hurries right now, buried under other work, and
need to get this veto heard.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Thorsten Glaser <tg at mirbsd.de>
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To: license-discuss at lists.opensource.org
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 14:38:07 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Certifying MIT-0

Ryan Birmingham dixit:

>reasons that the unlicense is not.

“Unlicense” is a PD dedication, not a licence, and therefore
not portable to at least a good part of the EU, unusable both
for consumers and creators. I have to treat stuff under the
“Unlicense” as proprietary unlicenced unusable crap.

(Sadly, it’s also still listed on the Copyfree site… perhaps
I have to start my own curated list… ☹)

bye,
//mirabilos
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Thorsten Glaser <tg at mirbsd.de>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSM.4.64L.2004241457320.10072 at herc.mirbsd.org>
To: license-discuss at lists.opensource.org
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 14:58:13 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Certifying MIT-0

Pamela Chestek dixit:

>The Unlicense has been submitted to License-Review and the review is
>pending. If you have objections to it, then you should raise them there.

Erk… thanks for the heads-up. I’ll have to forward my mail there then.

>No one has mentioned any way in which it doesn't meet the OSD.

Other than not being a copyright licence…

bye,
//mirabilos
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