Anarch's CC0 licence

[Artur Frenszek-Iwicki]

Hi all,

so some time ago... oh my, it's been a year already. Either way -
Creative Commons Zero has been re-classified in Fedora
as allowed for content, but not for code. [0]

I maintain a package, anarch [1], which is licensed under CC0.

For what it's worth, in the upstream readme, the author expresses
their intent for the project to be placed in the public domain: [2]
> tl;dr: everything in this repository is CC0 + a waiver of all rights, 
> completely public domain as much as humanly possible, do absolutely anything you want
> ...
> I therefore release everything in this repository under CC0 1.0
> a waiver of all other IP rights (including patents), which is as follows:
>
> ...

So I guess my question is: what do I do with it?
1) Can the package stay as-is, with a "CC0-1.0" license tag, basically grandfathered in?
2) Can the package stay, but with the license tag changed to "LicenseRef-Fedora-PublicDomain"?
3) No-go and should be retired?

Thanks in advance,
A.FI.

[0] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/...
[1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/anarch
[2] https://gitlab.com/drummyfish/anarch/#usage-rights

[Richard Fontana]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 3:42 AM Artur Frenszek-Iwicki
 wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> so some time ago... oh my, it's been a year already. Either way -
> Creative Commons Zero has been re-classified in Fedora
> as allowed for content, but not for code. [0]
>
> I maintain a package, anarch [1], which is licensed under CC0.
>
> For what it's worth, in the upstream readme, the author expresses
> their intent for the project to be placed in the public domain: [2]
> > tl;dr: everything in this repository is CC0 + a waiver of all rights,
> > completely public domain as much as humanly possible, do absolutely anything you want
> > ...
> > I therefore release everything in this repository under CC0 1.0
> > a waiver of all other IP rights (including patents), which is as follows:
> >
> > ...
>
> So I guess my question is: what do I do with it?
> Can the package stay as-is, with a "CC0-1.0" license tag, basically grandfathered in?
> Can the package stay, but with the license tag changed to "LicenseRef-Fedora-PublicDomain"?
> No-go and should be retired?

4) Please submit an issue in fedora-license-data to have the "usage
rights" reviewed - this may be OK.

Richard