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If you use an already established license people know what to expect and can easily reuse your work, do-it-yourself licenses frequently run into problems of bei
by grumbel 10y ago
If you use an already established license people know what to expect and can easily reuse your work, do-it-yourself licenses frequently run into problems of being imprecise and needing further clarifications. A lot of jurisdictions also don't allow you to easily release something in the public domain, you automatically retain some rights even when you don't want them, the license has to explicitly state that you waive those rights.
See the explanation for CC0: https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc...