Re: Sample implementation licences
Lassi Kortela 01 Sep 2024 08:19 UTC
In practice (given that public domain legislation is so complicated
internationally) it is imprudent to remove the CC0 boilerplate from a
project. CC0 is much more verbose than most of the popular permissive
licenses. For software, it's less trouble to use a short license.
I wouldn't overthink statements of the form "Copyright <year> so and
so". The world would grind to a halt if imprecise copyright notices
caused substantial problems. They are everywhere.
For code going into a SRFI's sample implementation, maybe dual license
as MIT and CC0, treating CC0 as just another license and using the
standard wording for each license even if it's imprecise. Non-standard
wording is more likely to cause confusion than to prevent it.