Unlicense.org is not unlicensed
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Unlicense.org is not unlicensed
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Re: Unlicense.org is not unlicensed
#2The footer of unlicense.org:
> No rights reserved
And links to CC0(http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
Re: Unlicense.org is not unlicensed
#3The footer of unlicense.org: > No rights reserved And links to CC0( http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ )
Which begs the question of why unlicense.org isn't just a page that says "This already exists and is called CC0". Why another license?
Re: Unlicense.org is not unlicensed
#4The footer of unlicense.org: > No rights reserved And links to CC0( http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ )
Which begs the question of why unlicense.org isn't just a page that says "This already exists and is called CC0". Why another license?
http://ar.to/2011/01/unlicense-1st-year explains some of the motivations
e.g. Creative Commons licenses generally are discouraged for software. Not much of an issue in case of CC0, but still
Re: Unlicense.org is not unlicensed
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which begs the question of why unlicense.org isn't just a page that says "This already exists and is called CC0". Why another license?
http://ar.to/2011/01/unlicense-1st-year explains some of the motivations e.g. Creative Commons licenses generally are discouraged for software. Not much of an issue in case of CC0, but still
Hmm, so unlicense is intended for software. And CC0 is also suitable for non software work like text. This makes sense. (Nowadays website becomes more like software though.)
Re: Unlicense.org is not unlicensed
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
http://ar.to/2011/01/unlicense-1st-year explains some of the motivations e.g. Creative Commons licenses generally are discouraged for software. Not much of an issue in case of CC0, but still
Hmm, so unlicense is intended for software. And CC0 is also suitable for non software work like text. This makes sense. (Nowadays website becomes more like software though.)
CC0 wasn't always deemed suitable for software, which led to the creation of the Unlicense initiative. The history is recounted at: https://github.com/project-open-data/project-open-data.githu...