Comment by WorldMaker

Comment by WorldMaker 5 days ago

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A similar presentation bug that stands out to me, the "Public Domain by Author" copyright claims are non-standard and don't actually do anything legally speaking in the US or many other world jurisdictions, and feel kind of silly/out-of-place. Maybe they are a political statement, but I think that just makes them more annoying, not less. This is why CC0 [0] exists and provides a ton of useful explanations and FAQ and suggestions on dedicating works to the public domain in a way that legally works/matters. Also as a reminder CC0 is not an OSI-approved code license and for that you should consider using something like CC0 "dual licensed" with "1-Clause BSD" [1] for software code. (Though CC0 is directly FSF approved now [and generally considered GPL family compatible], with suggested License verbiage in the CC0 FAQ.)

[0] https://creativecommons.org/public-domain/cc0/

[1] https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-1-Clause.html