Re: [License-discuss] I've been asked to license my open source project CC0

2017-11-07 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
On Nov 07, 2017, at 02:27 PM, Shahar Or wrote: Nigel, in case there's a misunderstanding—I'm not contributing to a CC0 licensed project. A maintainer of a CC0 licensed project has requested me to re-license my ISC licensed project to CC0. What do you mean by

Re: [License-discuss] I've been asked to license my open source project CC0

2017-11-07 Thread Shahar Or
Nigel, in case there's a misunderstanding—I'm not contributing to a CC0 licensed project. A maintainer of a CC0 licensed project has requested me to re-license my ISC licensed project to CC0. What do you mean by "Modifying the stock CC0"? Did they? And what do you mean by "they won’t use your

Re: [License-discuss] I've been asked to license my open source project CC0

2017-11-07 Thread Tzeng, Nigel H.
Oops, hit send by accident. CC0 is also accepted as GPL compatible and is a free software license (as judged by the FSF). It appears to me that the maintainers want all the code and art assets under one license and they are using CC0. That’s not too uncommon in general and in this case, it

Re: [License-discuss] I've been asked to license my open source project CC0

2017-11-07 Thread Tzeng, Nigel H.
CC0 is accepted as open source by the federal government in the Federal Source Code Policy. https://code.gov/#/policy-guide/docs/overview/introduction https://github.com/GSA/code-gov-web/blob/master/LICENSE.md From: License-discuss on behalf of

Re: [License-discuss] I've been asked to license my open source project CC0

2017-11-07 Thread Tzeng, Nigel H.
Sorry, this isn’t an issue. Q. Does using CC0 affect my ability to disclaim warranties? A. No. CC0 explicitly disclaims "representations or warranties of any kind" (see 4(b)). This is not affected by CC0's abandonment of all copyright-related rights to the extent legally possible. Disposing of

Re: [License-discuss] I've been asked to license my open source project CC0

2017-11-07 Thread Christopher Sean Morrison
> On Nov 7, 2017, at 12:09 PM, Shahar Or wrote: > > I have been asked to change the license of an open source project of mine to > CC0. I'm reluctant to do so, as it is not OSI approved. That’s a reasonable concern, imho. >

Re: [License-discuss] I've been asked to license my open source project CC0

2017-11-07 Thread David Woolley
On 07/11/17 17:09, Shahar Or wrote: Is there good reason for this request, at all? I mean, can they not otherwise depend on my software, if their software is CC0 licensed? When I conveyed my reluctance it was suggested that I dual-license. Dual licensing is pointless, as CC0 is always more

[License-discuss] I've been asked to license my open source project CC0

2017-11-07 Thread Shahar Or
I have been asked to change the license of an open source project of mine to CC0. I'm reluctant to do so, as it is not OSI approved. https://github.com/mightyiam/shields-badge-data/issues/28 Is there good reason for this request, at all? I mean, can they not otherwise depend on my software, if