[theme-reviewers] Public Domain Dedication

[Emil Uzelac]

Hey Guys,

Got this from Nathan this morning:

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Hi Emil,

Just about a month after you wrote to me last year, the FSF announced
that they were listing CC0 as compatible with the GPL, and therefore
suitable for software:

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/27081

Best,

Nathan

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Thanks,
Emil

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Yulian Yordanov <yul.yordanov at gmail.com>wrote:

>  Public Domain always was and it is GPL compatible. May be abreviation
> "CC0" mislead users that CC0 is kind of CC-license. But it's rather "no
> (zero) license in this work", than 'this work is under CC license".
>
> Here is the explanation from gnu.org
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#PublicDomain
>
>  Being in the public domain is not a license; rather, it means the
> material is not copyrighted and no license is needed. Practically speaking,
> though, if a work is in the public domain, it might as well have an
> all-permissive non-copyleft free software license. Public domain material
> is compatible with the GNU GPL.
>
> If you want to release your work to the public domain, we encourage you to
> use formal tools to do so. We ask people who make small contributions to
> GNU to sign a disclaimer form; that's one solution. If you're working on a
> project that doesn't have formal contribution policies like that, CC0<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#CC0>
>  is a good tool that anyone can use. It formally dedicates your work to
> the public domain, and provides a fallback license for cases where that is
> not legally possible.
>
>
> Fingli
>
>
>  На 11.7.2012 г. 06:11 ч., Emil Uzelac написа:
>
> Quick input CC0 was there last year as well
> http://web.archive.org/web/20110513233940/http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.htmlbut I can see May only and I've contacted CC in March. Maybe this was
> changed somewhere in the middle.
>
>  Emil
>
>  On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
>
>> Well that settles it, last year when I contacted CC they told me that
>> there's no compatibility between CC and GPL. All right, good news and
>> thanks for this! There's no way knowing or seeing the history here I guess,
>> meaning that what changed and when, or if this was like that before.
>>
>>  Emil
>>
>>  On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Sayontan Sinha <sayontan at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I was under the impression that CC0 is GPL compatible (
>>> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#CC0), and that it is the
>>> only GPL-compatible CC license.
>>>
>>>  On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Emil Uzelac <emil at themeid.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Hey Guys,
>>>>
>>>>  Quick question and I know that this was already discussed and that I
>>>> was the one to preach about CC not being GPL-Compatible with any version
>>>> and all that, however can we see if
>>>> http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en can be
>>>> accepted anyways? For example images and other good stuff. "Public Domain
>>>> Dedication" has 0 copyrights, no restrictions either... Or at least revisit
>>>> what the CC guy told us over the e-mail.
>>>>
>>>>  Am I asking too much?
>>>>
>>>>  Thanks,
>>>> Emil
>>>>
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