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by 683686285 1565 days ago
I'm not pretending copyright doesn't exist, but I want other people to be able to interact with my work as if copyright and other forms of IP didn't exist.

There doesn't seem to be a perfect way to achieve this. The problem with CC0 (and I believe the reason OSI doesn't approve of it) is that it says:

> No trademark or patent rights held by Affirmer are waived, abandoned, surrendered, licensed or otherwise affected by this document.

Whereas many licenses can be interpreted as an implied patent license[0]. I guess adding an additional declaration saying something like this could fix that:

> All trademark and patent rights associated with this work are permanently waived.

But I have no idea if that would work and it's frustrating that there is no simple way of opting out of intellectual 'property' ownership all together.

The closest, at least when it comes to software may be 0BSD considering large corporations like Google are willing to accept it.

[0]: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/a/11653

1 comments

So what do you do if a company contacts you for a commercial license? If the rights are permanently waived, how do you offer a different license?
The right copyright gives is a monopoly on distribution and on granting of conditional permission to distribute. The right is the monopoly itself, not the ability to do it. If you waive that right, you're saying that anyone is allowed to distribute and to grant permission to distribute. An author of a work in the public domain can license their work to someone under any license -- as can anyone else.