Re: XZ upstream thinks about switching from PD to 0BSD.

Daniel Hakimi <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.project,gmane.linux.debian.devel.legal
Message-ID <CALH5QQNjk0hZAWgz2vP2edWx317xqsDmt+ikymWAVVT=aohDkg@mail.gmail.com>
The BSD 0-clause license is effectively a public domain grant in
jurisdictions that acknowledge public domain grants, and an extremely
permissive license in jurisdictions that do not. This does not seem like an
issue. attribution is not required in either case.

On Tue, Feb 13, 2024, 15:49 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> the XZ upstream project thinks about changing the license from Public
> Domain to BSD Zero clause license:
>         https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/issues/79
>
> I *think* the PD "license" has no copyright and this isn't an issue for
> Debian.
> Could someone please comment on behalf of the Debian Project?
>
> Sebastian
>
>
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