[License-review] [PROPOSAL] Invite Creative Commons to submit CC0 Dedication.

Thorsten Glaser tg at mirbsd.de
Tue Jan 3 15:17:52 UTC 2012


Karl Fogel dixit:

>Does anyone here on the license review committee think that inviting
>Creative Commons to submit the CC0 Dedication for OSI approval is a bad
>idea, and if so, why?

I think submitting the licence fallback of CC0 for review as
an Open Source licence is a very good idea. (This is distinct.)
OSI should probably look at the entire document but not certify
a “this isn’t copyrighted” statement as a copyright licence.

bye,
//mirabilos
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 seconds since the Epoch precisely represent the number of
 seconds between the referenced time and the Epoch.”
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