From kde-community Mon Jan 28 14:51:06 2019 From: Cornelius Schumacher Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 14:51:06 +0000 To: kde-community Subject: Re: Licensing policy change proposal Message-Id: <3039571.B3mIxmANZY () cubuntu> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-community&m=154868709910994 On Sonntag, 27. Januar 2019 21:14:10 CET Mirko Boehm wrote: > > I need to point out that CC0 licenses are problematic in many jurisdictions, > as there is no simple way to dedicate a work to the public domain. The > correct way in for example France or Germany would be to use a permissive > FOSS license. Let us avoid the mine field of public domain. Isn't the CC0 license the attempt to solve the issues of the term "public domain" across jurisdictions and provide a license which works as what people expect from public domain? What are the issues of public domain that CC0 doesn't solve? -- Cornelius Schumacher