[–] weakish 11y ago ↗ The footer of unlicense.org:> No rights reservedAnd links to CC0(http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) [–] nandhp 11y ago ↗ Which begs the question of why unlicense.org isn't just a page that says "This already exists and is called CC0". Why another license? [–] detaro 11y ago ↗ http://ar.to/2011/01/unlicense-1st-year explains some of the motivationse.g. Creative Commons licenses generally are discouraged for software. Not much of an issue in case of CC0, but still [–] weakish 11y ago ↗ Hmm, so unlicense is intended for software. And CC0 is also suitable for non software work like text. This makes sense. (Nowadays website becomes more like software though.) [–] arto 11y ago ↗ CC0 wasn't always deemed suitable for software, which led to the creation of the Unlicense initiative. The history is recounted at: https://github.com/project-open-data/project-open-data.githu...
[–] nandhp 11y ago ↗ Which begs the question of why unlicense.org isn't just a page that says "This already exists and is called CC0". Why another license? [–] detaro 11y ago ↗ http://ar.to/2011/01/unlicense-1st-year explains some of the motivationse.g. Creative Commons licenses generally are discouraged for software. Not much of an issue in case of CC0, but still [–] weakish 11y ago ↗ Hmm, so unlicense is intended for software. And CC0 is also suitable for non software work like text. This makes sense. (Nowadays website becomes more like software though.) [–] arto 11y ago ↗ CC0 wasn't always deemed suitable for software, which led to the creation of the Unlicense initiative. The history is recounted at: https://github.com/project-open-data/project-open-data.githu...
[–] detaro 11y ago ↗ http://ar.to/2011/01/unlicense-1st-year explains some of the motivationse.g. Creative Commons licenses generally are discouraged for software. Not much of an issue in case of CC0, but still [–] weakish 11y ago ↗ Hmm, so unlicense is intended for software. And CC0 is also suitable for non software work like text. This makes sense. (Nowadays website becomes more like software though.) [–] arto 11y ago ↗ CC0 wasn't always deemed suitable for software, which led to the creation of the Unlicense initiative. The history is recounted at: https://github.com/project-open-data/project-open-data.githu...
[–] weakish 11y ago ↗ Hmm, so unlicense is intended for software. And CC0 is also suitable for non software work like text. This makes sense. (Nowadays website becomes more like software though.) [–] arto 11y ago ↗ CC0 wasn't always deemed suitable for software, which led to the creation of the Unlicense initiative. The history is recounted at: https://github.com/project-open-data/project-open-data.githu...
[–] arto 11y ago ↗ CC0 wasn't always deemed suitable for software, which led to the creation of the Unlicense initiative. The history is recounted at: https://github.com/project-open-data/project-open-data.githu...
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 19.8 ms ] thread> No rights reserved
And links to CC0(http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
e.g. Creative Commons licenses generally are discouraged for software. Not much of an issue in case of CC0, but still