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Consider recoloring CC0 license and adding 0BSD #10058
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Thanks for reaching out. I confess my initial reaction seeing this is the typical "I'm not a lawyer, I don't even want to pretend to be able to adjudicate open source licenses", but I also fully recognize the badge coloring is, to an extent, already doing just that. I'll be curious to hear thoughts from other maintainers, but I think there's two separate items here: the addition of 0BSD which should be fairly noncontroversial, and potential changes on CC0 which will have some level of blast radius consideration and controversy |
Yeah I agree regarding CC0. That's exactly why I put the opinions of Free Software Foundation nor Open Source Initiative in the original post, not my own opinion 馃槈 |
Broadly speaking, I'm against us just freestyling this and making our own judgements. Looking over the comments in https://github.com/badges/shields/blob/master/services/licenses.js and the discussion in #1190 it seems that we're mostly deferring to choosealicense.com on this. Looking over the table on https://choosealicense.com/appendix/ and http://landley.net/toybox/license.html I agree with adding 0BSD to this category 馃憤 On removing CC0: Badges are not only for software projects (although I acknowledge that is the primary use). Data projects can use badges too. You can use one on your eBook if you want 馃し |
Change is available for merge in PR #10092 |
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馃悶 Description
Neither Free Software Foundation nor Open Source Initiative recommend releasing software under CC0 due to patent grant issues, and only Free Software Foundation considers CC0 as a free license. However, it is currently being colored as the least restrictive. The license is controversial at best.
One real no-attribution license in the software world is 0BSD, which is not included by shield.io.
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馃挕 Possible Solution
Recolor or remove CC0, and add 0BSD to the public domain color list.
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