On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 04:20:37PM +0000, Ineiev wrote:
>
> The FSF's Licensing and Compliance Team made an update for
> Information for maintainers of GNU software; rms requested
> that the text be added to maintain.texi (the patch is attached).
>
> Could you commit it?
Sorry; re-attaching.
Index: maintain.texi
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RCS file: /sources/gnustandards/gnustandards/maintain.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.285
diff -U 2 -r1.285 maintain.texi
--- maintain.texi 22 Jan 2025 18:54:28 -0000 1.285
+++ maintain.texi 17 Feb 2025 17:45:29 -0000
@@ -1035,4 +1035,18 @@
@url{https://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/}.
+If you use CC0, please include a copy of its ``legal text''
+in a file named COPYING.CC0. See
+@url{https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.txt}.
+Unfortunately, that file doesn't include licensing terms for the
+text of CC0, so please add this at the top of that file:
+
+@smallexample
+According to Creative Commons
+(https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.en):
+
+The text of the Creative Commons public licenses is dedicated to the public
+domain under the CC0 Public Domain Dedication.
+@end smallexample
+
@node External Libraries
@section External Libraries
