Re: [License-discuss] veto against Unlicence (was Re: Certifying MIT-0)

2020-04-24 Thread McCoy Smith
> -Original Message- > From: License-discuss On > Behalf Of Thorsten Glaser > Sent: Friday, April 24, 2020 3:44 PM > To: license-discuss@lists.opensource.org; license- > rev...@lists.opensource.org > Subject: Re: [License-discuss] veto against Unlicence (was Re

Re: [License-discuss] veto against Unlicence (was Re: Certifying MIT-0)

2020-04-24 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi Tom, >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 copyright holder effectively says "I disclaim […] >I just don't see the copyright holder having any ground to stand

Re: [License-discuss] veto against Unlicence (was Re: Certifying MIT-0)

2020-04-24 Thread Thorsten Glaser
mc...@lexpan.law dixit: >The second paragraph of Unlicense is a license, at least as much of a It’s not: |This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain. This is a voluntary relinquishing of copyright protection done by the authors. (Whether this is valid in the country