[License-review] New License for Consideration - Public Benefit Zero Copyright License v. 2.0

[Wayne Thornton]

There was no such thing as copyleft either, before the GPL. Doesn't make it impossible for a new type of license to be created.

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The problem is that if it is public domain it must be unrestricted. There is no such thing as public domain but with restrictions

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Perhaps the term "license" doesn't apply and that particular line of argument wasn't well drafted on my part, but that doesn't change the rest of the argument that  "the intention of the license is to dedicate works to the public domain for a particular purpose aka to benefit the general public by sharing technological innovations and ideas in the form of source code, binaries and documentation of same. " (previous email)





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On Wed, Dec 18, 2024, at 10:59, Wayne Thornton wrote:

That being said,  at their core, a license like the GPL and the proposed PBZC are simply grants of rights to use the source code in other projects.



That is certainly true of the GPL family of licenses, but it is not true of the 'public domain dedication' portion of the PBZC. That dedication is an explicit relinquishment of the copyrights the author has in the work. Once those rights have been relinquished, the author cannot use the rights to take any action against anyone making use of the work, no matter what that use may be. A public domain dedication is not a license.


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