[License-review] veto against Unlicence

[Thorsten Glaser]

jonathon dixit:

>In Japan and The European Union, sans Britain, and its possessions and
>territories, buy _The Warranty of Title for SQLite_.

Except SQLite contains contributions from people in countries
that don’t allow relinquishing copyright and so is illegal anyway.

(Getting off-topic, I’m not going to discuss this in-depth, I have
headaches anyway.)

>In Asia, the only suggestion is to not come to the attention of anybody
>with political authority.

And isn’t that sad…


But this all goes to underline your statement:

>When using the an OSI approved license, the last thing I'd expect, is to
>discover that I had committed a felony.

When approving other licences with questionable wording, they were
rejected more easily. Is someone here invested in Unlicense or
something?


>> That's a problem with the German criminal code and needs to be fixed

Wishful thinking.

>That said, things that look like
>they might be public domain, can be, legally speaking, tricky.

Yeah, best to avoid them entirely, and/or ask the original authors
for an explicit fallback licence. (I did so for quite some pieces
of software; for many, such as the original author of the basis of
the shell I maintain, and some utility functions, I got it; others
didn’t reply or, in one famous counter-example (DJB) told me I did
not need it (wrong), meaning I’ll have to avoid his stuff.)

bye,
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