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Unlicense.org is not unlicensed

• weakish 11y ago
  The footer of unlicense.org: > No rights reserved And links to CC0(http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
  • nandhp 11y ago
    Which begs the question of why unlicense.org isn't just a page that says "This already exists and is called CC0". Why another license?
    • detaro 11y ago
      http://ar.to/2011/01/unlicense-1st-year http://ar.to/2011/01/unlicense-1st-year explains some of the motivations e.g. Creative Commons licenses generally are discouraged for software. Not much of an issue in case of CC0, but still
      • weakish 11y ago
        Hmm, so unlicense is intended for software. And CC0 is also suitable for non software work like text. This makes sense. (Nowadays website becomes more like software though.)
        • arto 11y ago
          CC0 wasn't always deemed suitable for software, which led to the creation of the Unlicense initiative. The history is recounted at: https://github.com/project-open-data/project-open-data.github.io/pull/135#issuecomment-23608330 https://github.com/project-open-data/project-open-data.githu...