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p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>On Wed, Dec 18, 2024, at 10:59, Wayne Thornton wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style="overflow-wrap:break-word;"><div class="qt-WordSection1"><p class="qt-MsoNormal">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.<br></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.<br></div><div><br></div></body></html>