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In many countries, you can't release your works into the public domain. You can only license them. Thus you should generally avoid CC0.
by est31 7y ago
In many countries, you can't release your works into the public domain. You can only license them. Thus you should generally avoid CC0.
- zokier 7y agoCC0 is explicitly designed with such legal issues in mind and includes a license for legislations that do not have direct way of putting works to PD > If the waiver isn’t effective for any reason, then CC0 acts as a license from the affirmer granting the public an unconditional, irrevocable, non exclusive, royalty free license to use the work for any purpose. https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0_FAQ#How_does_it_work.3F https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0_FAQ#How_does_it_wo... https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc...
- est31 7y agoAlright thanks for pointing that out, I misremembered it then.
- vertex-four 7y agoThe point of CC0 is that it puts things in the public domain if possible, and provides the most liberal license if not. See the "public license fallback" - https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode