Fedora to disallow CC0-licensed code

Posted Jul 26, 2022 15:01 UTC (Tue) by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359)
In reply to: Fedora to disallow CC0-licensed code by Wol
Parent article: Fedora to disallow CC0-licensed code

True, this could be the problem.

The MirOS Licence has an explicit permission on use combined with no such wording, and I intend that to be an implicit patent licence (I’d rather not have added an explicit one because software patents are illegal).

Fedora to disallow CC0-licensed code

Posted Jul 26, 2022 15:31 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (1 responses)

Stick a clause like "by distributing this software you agree that it contains no patent-eligible material".

Okay, any armchair lawyer stuff could be dangerous, but that would take your software firmly out of the net.

Cheers,
Wol

Fedora to disallow CC0-licensed code

Posted Jul 26, 2022 15:58 UTC (Tue) by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359) [Link]

Ugh, no… for multiple reasons, but the “no armchair lawyering” is probably the best one, and the one OSI looks at these days.