HI Jason,

I would ask first, is your intention to "dedicate" your s/w into the public domain for a specific reason, or are you mainly trying to make it clear that the s/w is re-usable without any conditions?

Reason asking, given the challenges of public domain in terms of the legal definition v. how people try to "dedicate" something into the public domain, a license with not conditions upon re-use may be easier.

Given that MIT-0 and 0BSD are both allowed generally, I think either would be a good option.

Obviously, I'd also encourage you to use the SPDX identifier in the standard way in each source file:
 e.g., // SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT-0

Note that the notice you cite below is the kind of thing that creates churn downstream in determining what "license" the code is under, as it requires someone to read that and then make a determination, in contrast to a standard way to identify the applicable license definitely and in a machine-readable way :)

Thanks,
Jilayne

On 2/17/25 10:49 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III via legal wrote:
I have some pieces of software which I always intended to release to the
public domain.  I understand that it not possible in all jurisdictions,
so in the past I would allow CC0 in this case and used the following
license statement:

# Originally written by Jason Tibbitts<j...@tib.bs> in 2016.
# Donated to the public domain.  If you require a statement of license, please
# consider this work to be licensed as "CC0 Universal", any version you choose.

Now, if course Fedora decided a couple of years ago that we can't use
CC0 for code.  Is there a Fedora-approved method for disclaiming
copyright?  I would like to do this the right way (in part because this
software is used by Fedora and I would like to package it for Fedora),
but it seems contradictory to use something like MIT-0 because the first
line is literally "Copyright <YEAR> <COPYRIGHT HOLDER>".  Does 0BSD
work?  That's athttps://opensource.org/license/0bsd
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