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Some places, like Germany, don't recognize a public domain at all.
Well, I imagine they recognize a license saying "you can do anything with this". It probably just has different legal status than public domain.
It's annoying that there's no internationally recognised way of saying "No, I (and my inheritors) are not going to sue you for using this source."
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I've written a bit on my experiences with OSI review in particular, and also the list of licenses it has approved. See, e.g., https://writing.kemitchell.com/2019/05/05/Rely-on-OSI.html . In a nutshell: people think there's a team of lawyers back there, counting angels on the heads of fine legal pins. But it's actually a highly politicized mailman list where activist-types do most of the talking. I put energy into cof…
Thanks for chipping in on this thread, you’re expressing things nice and clearly, now I have a few more links for describing this unhappy situation in open-source licensing. Any chance you could change the slug on that first link from Rely-on-OSI to Dont -Rely-on-OSI-Approval or similar? The current URL suggests the opposite of the article’s content. Hopefully adding a redirect isn’t too onerous.
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You are probably not very old but anyway . Let's say you die in accident. Nobody will be able to use your code until either copyright is repealed (the boomers half life has kicked in long enough such that they are irrelevant and we can change copyright) or you are 70 years dead. I understand you wanting to keep your options as long as possible. I see three options for you: - leave it without license and hope you will…
If I die, copyright would pass on to my heirs, and they could license it to others (until 70 years after my death, it would pass into public domain).
https://github.com/pygy/The-Romantic-WTF-Public-License
(I know it's a baaaad idea, I still love it)