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[Bug localedata/11213] localedata licencing issues


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11213

--- Comment #7 from Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail dot com> 2012-07-15 13:56:04 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> Explicit PD alone is *not* enough, it's non-free: it lacks an explicit
> copyright licence, and since the Berne Convention, all works are automatically
> under copyright protection. Saying a work is PD isn't possible in all
> jurisdictions.
> 
> If you absolutely must insist on PD, I really insist on you including a
> paragraph similar to the following too:
> 
> .\" In countries where the Public Domain status of the work may not be
> .\" valid, its primary author hereby grants a copyright licence to the
> .\" general public to deal in the work without restriction and permis-
> .\" sion to sublicence derivates under the terms of any (OSI approved)
> .\" Open Source licence.

If "Public Domain" like is a goal, is there any problem with CC-zero

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

or does CC-0 fail to overcome the absense of public domain status in certain
juridictions?

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