[Fedora-legal-list] Re: Properly releasing software to the public domain

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>>>>> Richard Fontana <rfontana@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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.

That is not at all clear, so thank you for saying that.

> 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.

The Unlicense is very interesting; thanks for the reference.  I think it
basically says what I was trying to.

Just to be clear, I'm reading the second sentence as a recommendation
against just lifting one of the many public domain dedications that are
allowed or coming up with my own, as opposed to being a recommendation
against the Unlicense.
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