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

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Am 17.02.25 um 21:53 schrieb Jason L Tibbitts III via legal:
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.

The bcrypt-Solar-Designer license [1] might be the closest thing expressing, what you are wanting to do; it is also listed as an allowed license for Fedora [2].

[1]  https://spdx.org/licenses/bcrypt-Solar-Designer.html
[2]  https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/allowed-licenses/

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