bats-core/bats-support

CC0 no longer allowed in Fedora. Move to 0BSD?

gioele opened this issue · 5 comments

gioele commented

The use of CC0 for code is no longer allowed in Fedora (see https://lwn.net/Articles/902410/.) This kind of changes tend to extend to other distributions such as Debian and SUSE after a while.

Would it be possible to relicense bats-support to another, more widely accepted, public-domain-equivalent license such as 0BSD1?

Footnotes

  1. https://opensource.org/licenses/0BSD ↩

martin-schulze-vireso commented

I'd hope for a grandfather clause. I don't think we will be able to get all contributor's approval for a relicensing.

principis commented

Hi! I was just packaging bats-support and bats-assert, but noticed the license. There are only 4 contributors, I believe it has a good chance of succeeding.

jasonkarns commented

I would be in support of moving to 0BSD. I can't speak for @ztombol , but given that the CC0 already contributes the source code to the public domain and waives copyright, I don't think there should be any conflict?

martin-schulze-vireso commented

IANAL so I think it would be best to get permission from all contributors. I am open for changing to 0BSD. This means we still need to hear from @Flamefire and @jlisee.

Since @ztombol does not seem to be active on GitHub anymore, I tried contacting them via their commit author mail.

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Flamefire commented

I have no issue with that. So permission from me.