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Call CC0 copying information instead of license

Open Jayman2000 opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

Reasons for making this change:

This repo says that its “license” is CC0. CC0 is a public domain dedication, not a license. I use CC0 on some of my work, and have contributed to Creative Commons open source projects before. Part of my motivation for using CC0 is to prevent people from thinking about licensing. Copyright can get complicated quickly, and CC0 is a good way to eliminate that complication.

Here’s what I want to get from this change: I want people understand that copyright doesn’t really need to be a consideration when reusing CC0’d works.

Links to documentation supporting these rule changes:

The term "copying" was chosen to make this repo more closely follow Creative Commons’s recommendation for applying CC0 to computer software.

Jayman2000 avatar Dec 06 '21 18:12 Jayman2000

Thanks for the contribution. I opened up a conversation internally on this.

bdougie avatar Dec 10 '21 18:12 bdougie