Towards an OSI-approved "waive all rights" software license

jonathon jonathon.blake at gmail.com
Tue Apr 19 18:33:27 UTC 2011


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On 18/04/2011 18:36, Lawrence Rosen wrote:

> I'm not convinced you actually need a license for "rather trivial pieces of code" that may be in the *real* public domain and not eligible for copyright
 protection at all.

I look at it this way.

Inasmuch as a 140 character tweet can allegedly be a copyright
infringement, by using a CC0 license, one specifically disclaims a
copyright interest in the code.

jonathon
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