[101008]

But the article makes a good point: unlicensed means the opposite.

Imagine two people from a corporation having this conversation:

'Can we use this?'

'Yes, it is unlicensed'

'So we cannot, we don't license it'

'No, we can'

'But you said...'

and so on...

[sunflowerdeath]

In the License section I write this text - "Public domain, see the LICENCE file.", and in the text of the license itself the word "unlicense" is also nowhere used.

[Vespasian]

Then I would not be able to use your code no matter my intentions no matter how well meaning you are.

In my country you cannot dedicate something to the public domain (it happens automatically 70 years after your death).

The Unlicense would most likely allow you or your heirs to come after me and sue me for copyright infringement for many decades.

If you (pretty much) only want US citizens (or naive people) to use your code that's fine. However given that you choose this license it seems like this wasn't your intention..

[sunflowerdeath]

"You can't dedicate something to the public domain in my country" - that's the whole point of Unlicense. Yes, I can do it, in my country, in your country, in any other country, and even on Mars. And I don't need an approval of any authority to be able to do it. The problem is not that I can't do it, the problem is that countries refuse to acknowledge that fact.