On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 9:13 PM, John Cowan <co...@mercury.ccil.org> wrote: > > > I continue to think that our CC0 decision was wrong insofar as it can > be read as saying that the CC0 license is not an open-source (as opposed > to OSI Certified) license. There may be reasons not to certify it, > but not to deny that it is open source.
We did not decide against CC0. The discussion was certainly at a low point when Creative Commons withdrew it from the approval process, but that's what happened, not an OSI denial. Had they persisted, I believe OSI would have needed to face the issue of how licenses treat patents. S.
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