Re: [License-discuss] Certifying MIT-0

2020-04-25 Thread Josh Berkus
On 4/25/20 7:43 PM, Mark Atwood wrote: > Almost all the sample, reference, teaching, documentation, and "blog" code > published by Amazon is MIT-0. Except for the stuff for Alexa and for > Lambda, and I'm hoping that changes. We like MIT-0 for that purpose > because the intent is that our c

Re: [License-discuss] Certifying MIT-0

2020-04-25 Thread Mark Atwood
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020, at 10:09, Josh Berkus wrote: > On 4/22/20 7:33 PM, Richard Fontana wrote: > Here is my non-proliferation question: > Is there significant use of MIT-0 in the field? Almost all the sample, reference, teaching, documentation, and "blog" code published by Amazon is MIT-0. Exc

Re: [License-discuss] Certifying MIT-0

2020-04-25 Thread Langley, Stuart
Is that para. 2 language so clearly a license? Without the verb "grant" it could be read as a statement of how the "licensor" views the effect of the dedication in para. 3. Separately, if the rights have been effectively dedicated to the public domain, there are no more rights to grant by act

Re: [License-discuss] Certifying MIT-0

2020-04-25 Thread Pamela Chestek
Moving discussion to license-review, since the Unlicense is under review. Pam On 4/24/2020 10:45 AM, Tom Callaway wrote: > Ignoring the legal morass of complexity that is the Public Domain, do > you honestly think there is any practical risk from honoring an > extreme permissive license where the

Re: [License-discuss] Certifying MIT-0

2020-04-25 Thread Pamela Chestek
Moving to license-review, since it is discussing a license currently under review. On 4/24/2020 10:38 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > “Unlicense” is a PD dedication, not a licence, and therefore > not portable to at least a good part of the EU, unusable both > for consumers and creators. I have to tr