On 06/08/2022 01:49, Richard Fontana wrote:
> CC0 has been listed by Fedora as a 'good' license for code and content
> (corresponding to allowed and allowed-content under the new system).
Fedora has enforced this CC0 for many years and now it is "not allowed".
This is so ridiculous.
> This is a fairly unusual change and may
> have an impact on a nontrivial number of Fedora packages (that is not
> clear to me right now), and we may grant a carveout for existing
> packages that include CC0-covered code.
Maybe the legal team should have done some investigation before banning
the CC0 license?
Here is the difference between what people think law is and what it really means. In law you can have 30 lawyers look at a license and say we think it’s ok. Then 10 years later they can look at the same license and say no it won’t work in this case. The reasons being that law is not static. Court cases in related or different fields will change how many things are seen.
Law is not computer code nor is it ruled by logic. It is ruled by the hearts and wills of millions of different things and will change over time constantly.
So saying oh you should have looked at it more doesn’t matter. At that time many different groups said the same thing and all felt if something went to court it would past muster. Now they don’t. Such is life
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Sincerely,
Vitaly Zaitsev (vitaly@easycoding.org)
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