On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM Jason L Tibbitts III via legal <legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have some pieces of software which I always intended to release to the > public domain. I understand that it not possible in all jurisdictions, > so in the past I would allow CC0 in this case and used the following > license statement: > > # Originally written by Jason Tibbitts <j@xxxxxx> in 2016. > # Donated to the public domain. If you require a statement of license, please > # consider this work to be licensed as "CC0 Universal", any version you choose. > > Now, if course Fedora decided a couple of years ago that we can't use > CC0 for code. Is there a Fedora-approved method for disclaiming > copyright? I would like to do this the right way (in part because this > software is used by Fedora and I would like to package it for Fedora), > but it seems contradictory to use something like MIT-0 because the first > line is literally "Copyright <YEAR> <COPYRIGHT HOLDER>". Does 0BSD > work? That's at https://opensource.org/license/0bsd There are lots of similar Fedora-allowed alternatives to CC0 though I wouldn't characterize any as being specifically means of "disclaiming copyright". You aren't required to use a copyright notice with MIT-0, or (if you think you need the copyright line for some reason, it's certainly not required from a Fedora allowance or SPDX representation perspective) you can put whatever you want in the copyright notice like "Copyright I don't claim any copyright" or what have you. The Unlicense is a fairly popular non-license license that contains "release into the public domain" rhetoric if that's what you're looking for. We wouldn't recommend this but you can see that there are zillions of legacy public domain dedication formulations that have been allowed in Fedora. -- _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to legal-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
