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Thanks for the contribution. I opened up a conversation internally on this. |
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Before this change, this repo said that its "license" was CC0. CC0 is a public domain dedication, not a license. (See <https://creativecommons.org/faq/#how-do-cc-licenses-operate>). This change makes this repo refer to CC0 as copying information. The term "copying" was chosen to make this repo more closely follow CC's recommendation for applying CC0 to computer software: <https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0_FAQ#May_I_apply_CC0_to_computer_software.3F_If_so.2C_is_there_a_recommended_implementation.3F>
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Reasons for making this change:
This repo says that its “license” is CC0. CC0 is a public domain dedication, not a license. I use CC0 on some of my work, and have contributed to Creative Commons open source projects before. Part of my motivation for using CC0 is to prevent people from thinking about licensing. Copyright can get complicated quickly, and CC0 is a good way to eliminate that complication.
Here’s what I want to get from this change: I want people understand that copyright doesn’t really need to be a consideration when reusing CC0’d works.
Links to documentation supporting these rule changes:
The term "copying" was chosen to make this repo more closely follow Creative Commons’s recommendation for applying CC0 to computer software.