Packaging Rust for Fedora

Posted Nov 1, 2022 23:37 UTC (Tue) by ssokolow (guest, #94568)
In reply to: Packaging Rust for Fedora by kleptog
Parent article: Packaging Rust for Fedora

It also trips up people from commonwealth and former commonwealth countries when they learn that saying "I'm putting this into the public domain" isn't enough in jurisdictions like Germany.

See this legal review of the CC0 for more on that.

(TL;DR: The CC0 has a license fallback because German law doesn't have a concept of prematurely giving up your copyright, and it has a legally binding promise not to sue, because German law doesn't let you pre-emptively sign away rights and protections that will be written into the law at some future date.)