CC0 license does not relinquish patent rights, any plans to release under other license term?

[neerajadsul]

Hi, I was planning to start using CustomTkinter when realised that it is licensed under CC0 1.0. CC0 1.0 is very pemissive but it has one major issue when used for software/code. CC0 license does not relinquish patent rights. So could be a big issue using in any commercial software. Please see the reference: https://lwn.net/Articles/902410/ Therefore I was wondering if there is a plan to release under equally permissive and software/code compatible license? Thanks.

[TomSchimansky]

I cannot imagine a company using my library and wanting to patent their product 😅, but I will consider changing the license.

[neerajadsul]

Thanks, really appreciate it! I believe it is more about protecting authors and users and invovement of possible third parties acting for authors. I do not have deep legal understanding but it came up at my previous workplace as well. We were trying to license/sell our software codebase as IP, the interested parties made sure that any open source libs we used, had Apache, MIT, BSD or similar permissive licenses only.