Prashant Shah wrote: > CC0 explicitly states that it doesn't grant patent rights if there are any. Is > this not going against the purpose of putting the work in public domain itself?
The rationale, as I understand, is that a group in a University or other large organization would like to make their work publicly available, but don't wish to have the expense of clearing it with the intellectual property department. In other words, they explicitly wish to reserve patent rights and don't want the public domain dedication to interfere with their ability to collect licensing. The FSF considers works released under CC0 to be "Free Software" [1], but, the rationale for this determination was never disclosed. Perhaps because anyone could sue for patent infringement regardless of copyright? The OSI couldn't come to an agreement on the fallback license, since it explicitly withheld patent rights [2]. Clark [1] [1]http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#CC0 [2] [2]http://opensource.org/faq#cc-zero References 1. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#CC0 2. http://opensource.org/faq#cc-zero
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