> However, CC0 does not contain a patent grant and so it's probably not the best choice for software if you are looking for an open source license. Patent lice

> However, CC0 does not contain a patent grant and so it's probably not the best choice for software if you are looking for an open source license. Patent license scares are greatly overblown and really only a realistic danger in case of corporate code. People tend to have the decency to point out that the algorithms contained in the code are patented. A license containing a patent grant might actually be dangerous because it creates a false sense of security for the receipient, thinking they have a valid title, only to find out later that corporation X actually had a patent on this algorithm. Additionally, if you're sitting in a European jurisdiction, a patent license is completely pointless. Because software patents don't exist there. There's literally nothing that could possibly be licensed.