[License-discuss] Discussion Request: Autonomous Commons Dedication 1.0 (ACD-1.0)
横井雄太
yuta.yokoi.r at gmail.com
Wed Aug 26 08:17:36 UTC 2026
Dear License Discuss Community,
Following a request from the OSI license-review list, I would like to
request discussion and feedback on the Autonomous Commons Dedication 1.0
(ACD-1.0) before proceeding further with the formal license-review process.
License name: Autonomous Commons Dedication 1.0
Version: 1.0
Proposed short identifier: ACD-1.0
License steward: Yuta Yokoi
Contact: yuta.yokoi.r at gmail.com
Canonical license text:
https://yutapr0117-design.github.io/portfolio/LICENSES/ACD-1.0.txt
Project currently using the license:
https://github.com/yutapr0117-design/portfolio
Published project:
https://yutapr0117-design.github.io/portfolio/
The complete license text is attached as ACD-1.0.txt.
Purpose of ACD-1.0
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ACD-1.0 is intended as a reusable, zero-condition instrument that may be
applied by any licensor to software or other works. It is not specific to
this repository, to me, to any organization, jurisdiction, or field.
I believe it complies with the Open Source Definition, including OSD 3, OSD
5, OSD 6, and OSD 9.
It permits modification and derived works, discriminates against no person
or group, places no restriction on any field of endeavor, and imposes no
restriction on other software distributed together with the licensed Work.
Why I believe a new license may be useful
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ACD-1.0 addresses three issues together that I have not found addressed
together by an existing OSI-approved license.
1. Machine learning and text-and-data mining
ACD-1.0 expressly permits Computational Use, including text and data
mining, indexing, analysis, training, fine-tuning, evaluation, alignment,
and distillation.
It also expressly addresses reservations against machine learning or TDM
and the treatment of models, parameter sets, weights, embeddings, and
outputs resulting from Computational Use.
The objective is to make these permissions directly determinable by both
human and automated consumers instead of requiring them to infer the result
from a general copyright grant.
2. Patents
ACD-1.0 includes an express worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable patent
license.
It separately addresses patent claims implicated by Computational Use and
resulting models, parameter sets, weights, embeddings, and outputs, and
includes a covenant not to assert where the patent license itself is held
ineffective.
3. Machine-generated material
The legal status of machine-generated material remains uncertain across
jurisdictions.
ACD-1.0 is designed so that a recipient does not need to determine whether
rights subsist in a machine-generated portion of the Work before relying on
the freedoms expressed by the instrument.
Comparison with existing OSI-approved licenses
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The closest OSI-approved license in terms of imposing essentially no
conditions appears to be the Zero-Clause BSD License (0BSD).
ACD-1.0 differs from 0BSD by expressly addressing, among other things:
- machine learning and text-and-data mining;
- patents;
- sui generis database rights;
- machine-generated material;
- moral rights;
- irrevocability and succession of rights.
The closest commonly used OSI-approved license with an express patent grant
is Apache License 2.0.
ACD-1.0 differs materially from Apache-2.0 because it imposes no
attribution, notice-retention, source-disclosure, reciprocity, or
patent-retaliation condition. It also expressly addresses Computational Use
and patent exposure associated with resulting machine-learning artifacts.
Open Source Definition
----------------------
My understanding is that ACD-1.0 satisfies the OSD as follows:
- OSD 1: redistribution and sale are permitted without royalty or condition.
- OSD 2: distribution in source, object, or any other form is permitted.
- OSD 3: modification and derivative works are expressly permitted, and
recipients may distribute them under terms of their choosing.
- OSD 4: the license places no restriction on modification of the licensed
Work.
- OSD 5: there is no discrimination against persons or groups.
- OSD 6: there is no restriction on any field of endeavor.
- OSD 7: the permissions do not require a separate agreement or act of
acceptance.
- OSD 8: the license is reusable and is not specific to any particular
product.
- OSD 9: it places no restriction on other software distributed with the
Work.
- OSD 10: no particular technology, interface, click-through mechanism, or
method of distribution is required.
Legal review and current use
----------------------------
The license has not been reviewed by legal counsel and was not drafted by a
lawyer.
I disclose that explicitly because I would particularly welcome scrutiny
concerning:
- the treatment of patent rights;
- moral rights across jurisdictions;
- the public-domain dedication structure;
- machine-generated material;
- the relationship between the independent dedication, license grant, and
covenants not to assert.
The license is currently used by one substantial public repository:
https://github.com/yutapr0117-design/portfolio
I make no claim of wider adoption at this time.
The license text is intended to be reusable by unrelated licensors and
projects without modification.
The instrument contains a public-domain dedication, but the copyright
license is granted independently of that dedication rather than merely as a
fallback. A recipient therefore does not need to determine whether the
dedication is effective before relying on the license grant.
Discussion request
------------------
I would welcome criticism, questions, identification of ambiguities,
comparisons with existing licenses, and recommendations concerning whether
ACD-1.0 fills a useful gap and whether any provisions should be revised
before a formal approval submission.
While this version is being discussed, I intend to keep the referenced
ACD-1.0 text stable so that comments refer to a consistent text. If the
discussion identifies changes that should be made, I will collect the
feedback and prepare a revised version rather than silently altering the
text being discussed.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Yuta Yokoi
License Steward
Autonomous Commons Dedication 1.0 (ACD-1.0)
yuta.yokoi.r at gmail.com
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Autonomous Commons Dedication
Version 1.0
Short identifier: ACD-1.0
PREAMBLE (informative; not part of the operative terms)
Software and the works that surround it are increasingly produced by
machines, read by machines, and improved by machines. The legal tools in
common use were drafted for a world in which a human author held rights and
chose which of them to keep. That assumption now fails in three places at
once. It is unclear whether rights subsist in machine-generated material at
all. Permissive licences are silent on whether a work may be used to train a
model; silence is not refusal, but neither is it permission that an automated
system can rely on, because the question is unsettled in most jurisdictions
and, where a reservation mechanism exists, it can be operated by parties other
than the licensor through signals attached to the work. And dedications to the
public domain either withhold patent rights expressly or say nothing about
them at all, and both leave the recipient of software exposed.
This Dedication is written for works that are meant to be learned from. It
gives everything away, once, without conditions, and it speaks in the three
places where the existing tools are silent or hostile: machine learning,
patents, and machine authorship.
It does so on three footings that stand side by side rather than in a queue.
Section 3 surrenders the rights. Section 4 grants a licence over the same
rights. Section 5 is a promise not to assert them. Each is given on its own
terms, none is a fallback for another, and a reader who needs only one of
them may rely on that one without deciding whether the others took effect.
A public-domain dedication that offered a licence only if the dedication
failed would put that decision on the reader; this one does not.
Sections 1 to 16 are the operative terms. This preamble is not, and nothing
in it qualifies them.
1. DEFINITIONS
1.1 "Dedication" means this document, comprising Sections 1 to 16.
1.2 "Work" means the material to which the Dedicator has applied this
Dedication, in whole or in part, in any medium and in any form,
including source code, object code, documentation, data, metadata,
audiovisual material, and any collection or compilation of these.
1.3 "Dedicator" means each person or entity applying this Dedication to the
Work, to the extent that person or entity holds or may hold Covered
Rights in it. Where the Work has more than one Dedicator, this
Dedication operates severally as to each, and the failure or
ineffectiveness of any one Dedicator's act does not affect another's.
1.4 "You" means any person or entity exercising permissions under this
Dedication, whether human, organisational, or automated. "Your" is
construed accordingly. Where an automated system exercises a permission
granted here, that permission is granted equally to the person or entity
on whose behalf it acts and to the person or entity that operates it, so
that no permission fails for want of a legal person to hold it.
1.5 "Covered Rights" means every right that the Dedicator holds or may come
to hold in the Work anywhere in the world, now or in future, and however
arising, including copyright, rights in performances, broadcast and
recording rights, sui generis database rights, rights against unfair
extraction, and any right of similar effect, whether or not presently
known and whether or not presently subsisting. Covered Rights excludes
patent rights, which Section 8 addresses; trademark rights and rights in
a name, which Section 11 addresses; and Moral Rights, which Section 12
addresses.
1.6 "Moral Rights" means the rights of an author to be identified as such,
to object to derogatory treatment or distortion of a work, to control
first publication, and any other right of a personal character conferred
on an author by law, however described, including rights that the law of
a jurisdiction declares to be personal to the author, inalienable, or
incapable of transfer.
1.7 "Computational Use" means any automated processing of the Work,
including reproduction, extraction, normalisation, indexing, retrieval,
analysis, and text and data mining, and including use of the Work as
input to train, fine-tune, evaluate, align, distil, or otherwise develop
a machine learning model, and the making, distribution, and use of any
model, parameter set, weight, embedding, or output resulting from that
processing.
1.8 "Machine-Generated Material" means any part of the Work produced in
whole or in substantial part by an automated system, whether or not a
person directed, prompted, reviewed, edited, or selected it.
1.9 "Contribution" means any work of authorship, including any modification,
addition, correction, translation, or accompanying material, that a
person intentionally submits to the Dedicator or to a repository or
forum the Dedicator maintains, for inclusion in the Work. A submission
is intentional if it is made by or on behalf of the person for that
purpose; material sent for discussion only, and material a person marks
as not being a Contribution, are excluded.
1.10 "Reservation" means any act, notice, marking, metadata, protocol
element, header, machine-readable signal, contractual term, or other
measure by which a rightsholder purports to reserve, withhold, or opt
out of permission for text and data mining or for the use of a work in
developing a machine learning model, including a reservation of the kind
contemplated by Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790 and by any
provision of national or international law of similar effect.
2. SCOPE AND EFFECT
2.1 This Dedication applies to the Work as a whole and to every separable
part of it.
2.2 This Dedication is irrevocable. The Dedicator may not withdraw it, and
may not impose any further term, condition, or restriction, in respect
of any copy of the Work that has been made available.
2.3 This Dedication takes effect without any act of acceptance by You. You
need not sign, register, notify, request, or agree to anything, and
nothing You do or fail to do can cause You to lose a permission granted
here.
2.4 Sections 3, 4, 5, and 6 are independent of one another. Each is granted
on its own footing and none is conditioned on the failure of another.
Where more than one operates, they operate cumulatively, and Section
15.1 governs their construction.
2.5 The Dedicator makes this Dedication knowing and intending that others
will rely on it in deciding to use, adapt, distribute, and build upon the
Work, and that they will incur effort and expense in doing so. That
reliance is the purpose of this Dedication and not merely a foreseeable
consequence of it. The Dedicator will not assert that this Dedication is
revocable, unsupported, or otherwise ineffective for want of
consideration or formality, and is estopped from doing so to the extent
the law of any jurisdiction gives that principle effect.
2.6 A Contribution is submitted under this Dedication, and the person making
it becomes a Dedicator as to that Contribution, unless they state
otherwise at the time of submission. No separate instrument, assignment,
or agreement is required, and none may be required of them as a condition
of the Contribution being accepted. Nothing in this Section obliges
anyone to submit anything, or obliges the Dedicator to accept anything.
2.7 This Dedication reaches only rights the Dedicator holds. Where the Work
incorporates material in which another person holds rights, this
Dedication neither affects nor purports to affect those rights, and
nothing in it is a representation that such material is unencumbered.
Section 13.2 states the corresponding absence of warranty.
2.8 Sections 3, 4, 6, and 8 bind the Dedicator's successors, assigns, heirs,
and personal representatives, and any person to whom a Covered Right or
a patent claim in the Work is transferred, to the fullest extent the law
permits. A transferee takes subject to them, and may not make a
Reservation in respect of the Work. This is stated expressly because
Sections 5.3 and 12.4 say as much for the covenants they contain, and
silence here would invite the argument that the grants themselves stop
at the Dedicator, which would leave the longest-lived risk, the change
of hands, open.
2.9 This Dedication is fully performed when it is applied. It leaves no
continuing obligation on the Dedicator (Section 13.3) and none on You
(Section 10.1), and so is not executory. No insolvency, bankruptcy,
administration, receivership, liquidation, dissolution, or similar
proceeding in respect of the Dedicator, and no act of a trustee,
administrator, receiver, liquidator, or equivalent officer, affects a
permission granted here or revives a right given away. Such an officer
is a person to whom rights are transferred for the purposes of Section
2.8. Insolvency is stated separately because it is the most common way
in which rights change hands against the wishes of the person who gave
them away.
3. DEDICATION OF COVERED RIGHTS
3.1 The Dedicator irrevocably surrenders, abandons, and relinquishes all
Covered Rights in the Work, to the fullest extent permitted by the law
of each jurisdiction, and places the Work in the public domain in each
jurisdiction that gives effect to such an act.
3.2 The surrender in Section 3.1 is made for the full term for which the
Covered Rights would otherwise subsist, including any extension,
restoration, or revival of term, and includes any right to
compensation, remuneration, levy, or royalty arising from any use of
the Work.
3.3 Where the law of a jurisdiction does not permit a Covered Right to be
surrendered but permits it to be waived, the Dedicator waives it.
4. LICENCE OF COVERED RIGHTS
4.1 The Dedicator grants You a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive,
irrevocable, perpetual, sublicensable, and transferable licence to
exercise all Covered Rights in the Work for any purpose whatsoever.
4.2 The licence in Section 4.1 includes, without limitation, the rights to
use, reproduce, store, cache, adapt, translate, modify, create
derivative and collective works from, publicly display, publicly
perform, communicate to the public, publish, distribute, lend, rent,
sell, and sublicense the Work and any adaptation of it, in source form,
in object form, or in any other form, in any medium, and by any means
now known or later devised.
4.3 The licence in Section 4.1 is granted subject to no condition of any
kind. In particular it is not conditioned on attribution, on
reproduction of any notice, on reciprocal or compatible licensing, on
disclosure of source, on field of use, on the identity, character, or
purpose of the user, or on any restriction as to persons, groups,
technologies, endeavours, or jurisdictions.
4.4 The licence in Section 4.1 is granted independently of Section 3 and
does not depend on Section 3 being ineffective. Where Section 3 is
effective, this Section is redundant but not void, and it remains
available to be relied upon by You. You are not required to determine
whether Section 3 is effective in any jurisdiction, and no permission
granted here depends on that question or on how it is answered.
4.5 Because this licence imposes no condition, You may distribute the Work,
and any adaptation or collection containing it, under any terms You
choose, including terms that impose conditions upon Your own recipients
and including terms that are incompatible with these. Nothing here
limits what those terms may be, requires them to reproduce this text,
or places any obligation on You in respect of Your recipients.
4.6 Section 4.5 concerns the terms You may add. It does not cut Your
recipients off from this Dedication: a person who exercises a
permission granted here is You in their own right (Section 1.4), the
covenants may be relied upon by anyone who receives the Work from You,
directly or indirectly (Section 5.3), and no act of acceptance is
needed (Section 2.3). Terms You add govern what You give; they do not
narrow what the Dedicator has already given in respect of the Work.
5. COVENANT NOT TO ASSERT
5.1 The Dedicator covenants not to assert, and not to authorise or assist
any other person to assert, any Covered Right against You in respect of
any use of the Work.
5.2 The Dedicator further covenants that the Dedicator will not, in respect
of the Work:
(a) apply, or assert rights in respect of, any technological measure
that restricts access to or use of the Work, or invoke any law
concerning the circumvention of such measures against You;
(b) impose by contract, terms of service, access condition, click-
through, registration requirement, or any other collateral means
an obligation in respect of the Work that this Dedication does not
itself impose, and it imposes none (Section 10.1); or
(c) assert that any permission granted here is narrower than Section
15.1 requires it to be read.
5.3 The covenants in Sections 5.1 and 5.2 run with the Work, bind the
Dedicator's successors, assigns, heirs, and personal representatives,
and may be relied upon by You and by anyone who receives the Work from
You, directly or indirectly, as an intended beneficiary.
6. MACHINE LEARNING, TEXT AND DATA MINING, AND MODEL TRAINING
6.1 Computational Use of the Work is expressly permitted, for any purpose,
commercial or non-commercial, by any person or automated system,
without condition.
6.2 The Dedicator makes no Reservation in respect of the Work and expressly
declines to make one. So far as the Covered Rights and patent claims of
the Dedicator are concerned, no notice, marking, metadata, protocol
element, header, robots directive, or other signal associated with the
Work is to be read as a Reservation, whatever its form and whoever
placed it there. This Section is bounded by Section 2.7: it states the
Dedicator's own position and does not purport to defeat a Reservation
made by another rightsholder, which Section 6.3 addresses on its own
terms.
6.3 Where a Reservation has been made in respect of the Work, whether by the
Dedicator or by another person, and whether before or after this
Dedication was applied, the Dedicator withdraws it and disclaims
reliance on it, to the fullest extent the Dedicator is able.
6.4 No model, parameter set, weight, embedding, or output derived from
Computational Use of the Work is encumbered by this Dedication or by any
Covered Right of the Dedicator, and You owe nothing in respect of any of
them. Nothing in this Dedication requires You to license, disclose, or
attribute any such thing.
6.5 Section 6 states expressly what Sections 3 to 5 would in any event
permit. It is stated expressly because silence on this subject has
proved ambiguous in practice, and because a permission that an automated
system cannot determine is, for the purposes of a work meant to be
learned from, no permission at all.
7. SUI GENERIS DATABASE RIGHTS
7.1 To the extent that a sui generis database right, or a right against the
extraction or re-utilisation of the contents of a database, subsists in
the Work, it is a Covered Right and Sections 3 to 6 apply to it.
7.2 You may extract and re-utilise the whole or any substantial part of the
contents of the Work, repeatedly and systematically, without limit and
without condition.
8. PATENT LICENCE AND COVENANT
8.1 The Dedicator grants You a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive,
irrevocable, perpetual, sublicensable, and transferable licence under
every patent claim owned or controlled by the Dedicator, now or in
future, that would be infringed by making, having made, using, offering
to sell, selling, importing, or otherwise transferring the Work, or by
doing any of those things in respect of any derivative of the Work,
where the infringement is caused by subject matter contained in the Work
as made available by the Dedicator.
8.2 The licences granted by Sections 8.1 and 8.4 are subject to no condition
and are not terminable by the Dedicator on any ground, including the
commencement of or participation in patent litigation by You against the
Dedicator or any other person. This Dedication contains no patent
retaliation provision, and its absence is deliberate.
8.3 Nothing in this Dedication reserves, preserves, or leaves unaffected any
patent right of the Dedicator in respect of the Work. A dedication that
gives away copyright while withholding patent rights leaves the
recipient exposed, because software cannot be practised without
practising whatever patent claims it embodies. Any reading of this
Dedication that would produce that result is to be rejected.
8.4 The Dedicator further grants You a licence on the terms of Section 8.1,
under every patent claim owned or controlled by the Dedicator, now or in
future, that would be infringed by Computational Use of the Work or by
the making, having made, use, offering for sale, sale, importation, or
other transfer of any model, parameter set, weight, embedding, or output
resulting from that use. This is a grant in its own right and not a
clarification of Section 8.1: whether a trained model is "the Work" or a
derivative of it is unresolved, and a provision that merely avoided
doubt would be read down with the reading it was meant to correct. The
grant is necessary because Covered Rights exclude patent rights (Section
1.5), so Section 6.4 alone would leave Computational Use permitted as to
copyright while exposed as to patents, which is the very result Section
8.3 rejects and one that would defeat the purpose stated in Section 6.5.
The proviso in Section 8.1 as to subject matter contained in the Work is
deliberately absent from this Section: a model is not subject matter
contained in the Work, so importing that proviso would restore the
exposure this Section exists to remove.
8.5 Sections 8.1 to 8.4 are subject to Section 2.7: they reach only patent
claims the Dedicator owns or controls, and are neither a representation
nor a warranty that practising the Work infringes no claim held by
another person. Section 13.2 states the corresponding absence of
warranty.
8.6 Where a licence granted by Section 8.1 or Section 8.4 is held ineffective
in a jurisdiction, the Dedicator covenants, in that jurisdiction, not to
assert and not to authorise or assist any other person to assert the
patent claims that Section describes, against You, in respect of any use
of the Work or of anything resulting from Computational Use of it. This
covenant is given on the same footing as the covenant in Section 5 and
is not conditioned on the licence having failed for any particular
reason. Copyright is protected here three times over, by surrender
(Section 3), by licence (Section 4), and by covenant (Section 5); this
Section gives the patent grant the second footing it would otherwise
lack, in the manner Section 12.2 uses for Moral Rights.
9. MACHINE-GENERATED MATERIAL AND AUTHORSHIP
9.1 The Work may consist wholly or partly of Machine-Generated Material.
9.2 The Dedicator makes no representation that any right subsists in any
part of the Work, and asserts no right in Machine-Generated Material.
Where a right does not subsist, this Dedication adds nothing to Your
existing freedom and takes nothing away. Where a right subsists, or is
later held to subsist, Sections 3 to 8 and Section 12 apply to it in
full.
9.3 You are not required to determine which parts of the Work are
Machine-Generated Material. No permission granted here depends on that
question, or on how any jurisdiction answers it, or on whether the
answer changes.
9.4 This Section is not a disclaimer of the fact of origin. Where a person
directed the making of the Work, that remains true as a matter of
history whatever the position in law. Section 10 governs whether You
need say so, and Section 11.3 explains why a false claim of authorship
is not something this Dedication is able to permit.
10. ABSENCE OF CONDITIONS
10.1 This Dedication imposes no condition, obligation, restriction, or
requirement upon You in respect of the Work.
10.2 In particular, You need not give attribution, reproduce any notice,
state that the Work was modified, make source available, license
anything under these or any other terms, retain this file, or inform
anyone of anything.
10.3 Any request, preference, custom, or expectation expressed by the
Dedicator in respect of the Work, wherever expressed and however
phrased, including a request for attribution or citation, is a request
and not a condition. It creates no obligation, its non-observance is not
a breach, and it neither limits, qualifies, nor terminates any
permission granted here.
10.4 No permission granted by this Dedication terminates for any reason. This
Dedication contains no termination provision and no revival provision,
because it contains nothing that You could breach.
10.5 Section 16 concerns the text of this Dedication as a document, and not
the Work. Nothing in Section 16 is a condition upon Your use of the
Work, and Section 10.1 is unaffected by it.
11. TRADEMARKS, NAMES, AND MISREPRESENTATION
11.1 This Dedication grants no right in any trademark, service mark, trade
name, logo, or personal name of the Dedicator or of any other person.
Nothing in this Section reduces a permission granted by Sections 3 to
10.
11.2 Nominative reference is unaffected. You may state truthfully what the
Work is, where it came from, and who made it, and You may name the
Dedicator for that purpose.
11.3 This Dedication does not make a false statement true. Representing that
the Dedicator authored, endorsed, approved, sponsored, or is associated
with a work, when that is not the case, is outside what this Dedication
reaches, because it was never the Dedicator's to permit. This Section
states a limit of the Dedication's reach; it is not a condition upon
You, and Section 10.1 is unaffected by it.
11.4 This Dedication reaches Covered Rights, the patent claims described in
Section 8, and Moral Rights to the extent stated in Section 12. It
reaches nothing else. It grants no permission under the law of data
protection, under a right of privacy, publicity, or personality, or
under any right held by a person other than the Dedicator. Where the
Work contains personal data, or the likeness, voice, or performance of
a person, any permission those laws require is not the Dedicator's to
give and this Dedication does not purport to give it. This matters here
because a work meant to be learned from is often data about people, and
a reader is entitled to know exactly where this instrument stops.
Section 2.7 states the general principle and Section 13.2 the
corresponding absence of warranty; this Section states a limit of
reach, it is not a condition upon You, and Section 10.1 is unaffected
by it.
12. MORAL RIGHTS
12.1 To the fullest extent permitted by the law of each jurisdiction, the
Dedicator waives and agrees not to assert Moral Rights in the Work.
12.2 Where the law of a jurisdiction provides that Moral Rights are personal
to the author, inalienable, or incapable of waiver, Section 12.1 does
not apply in that jurisdiction, and instead the Dedicator covenants not
to exercise Moral Rights in the Work against You or against any person
who receives the Work from You.
12.3 The covenant in Section 12.2 is limited to the Work. It extends to no
other work of the Dedicator, whether existing or future, and it is given
in respect of a work that the Dedicator has chosen to place in the
commons for the purpose stated in Section 6.
12.4 The covenant in Section 12.2 binds the Dedicator's successors, assigns,
heirs, personal representatives, and any person entitled to exercise or
enforce Moral Rights in the Work after the Dedicator's death, to the
fullest extent the law permits the Dedicator to bind them. This is stated
expressly because Moral Rights outlive the author in many jurisdictions
and may be exercised by relatives or by a public authority, so a covenant
that bound only the Dedicator would leave the longest-lived risk open.
12.5 The covenant in Section 12.2 does not extend to conduct falling within
Section 11.3. The interest that Moral Rights protect against false
attribution is therefore preserved, and this Dedication does not ask the
Dedicator to abandon it.
12.6 If Section 12.2 is held invalid in whole or in part in a jurisdiction,
Section 15.4 applies, and the invalidity affects no other Section.
13. NO WARRANTY
13.1 THE WORK IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY
WARRANTY OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, OR ABSENCE OF ERRORS OR DEFECTS.
13.2 THE DEDICATOR DOES NOT WARRANT THAT ANY RIGHT SUBSISTS IN THE WORK, THAT
THE DEDICATOR HOLDS ANY RIGHT IN IT, THAT ANY SECTION OF THIS DEDICATION
IS EFFECTIVE IN ANY JURISDICTION, OR THAT USE OF THE WORK DOES NOT
INFRINGE THE RIGHTS OF ANY OTHER PERSON.
13.3 The Dedicator has no duty to maintain, update, correct, support, defend,
or continue to make the Work available.
14. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
14.1 TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE DEDICATOR IS NOT
LIABLE TO YOU OR TO ANY OTHER PERSON, ON ANY LEGAL THEORY, FOR ANY
DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY, OR
SPECIAL LOSS OR DAMAGE ARISING OUT OF THIS DEDICATION OR THE USE OF THE
WORK, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH LOSS OR DAMAGE.
14.2 Where applicable law does not permit the exclusion or limitation of a
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