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Re:What’s up with these new not-open source licenses? by alexhutcheson on Thursday March 18, 2021 @08:29PM (#26509071)
Creative Commons licenses aren’t recommend for software[1], but you can use the Zero-Clause BSD License[2] to satisfy the same goals as CC0.

[1] https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-comm...

[2] https://opensource.org/licenses/0BSD

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Re:What’s up with these new not-open source licenses? by detaro on Thursday March 18, 2021 @08:33PM (#26509089)
from [1]

> Also, the CC0 Public Domain Dedication is GPL-compatible and acceptable for software. For details, see the relevant CC0 FAQ entry.

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Re:What’s up with these new not-open source licenses? by GoblinSlayer on Friday March 19, 2021 @03:04AM (#26510709)
It's applicable to software, but it's not a good software license due to reservation of patent rights. CC was designed for scientific publications, in that context reservation of patent rights has an understandable meaning, but when applied to software it takes a very different unintended meaning.
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Re:What’s up with these new not-open source licenses? by alexhutcheson on Thursday March 18, 2021 @08:47PM (#26509167)
Ah didn’t realize that. Thanks for pointing it out.
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