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0 pointsth0br011y ago0 comments

Not in a fair number of European countries (France, Germany, ...) - as the op stated you can not cede your copyright which is granted by law. You can't even sign it away (instead have to grant an unlimited + exclusive license to your employer for example)

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gojomo11y ago· 2 in thread

Good to know! (That's why I included the qualifier "in many jurisdictions".)

Here, also, Creative Commons' "CC0" declaration is a friend of authors who want to be universally open. CC0 was designed with multiple fallback clauses, intended to also handle copyright systems like those of France or Germany.

cpach11y ago

The ISC license is much simpler: https://www.isc.org/downloads/software-support-policy/isc-li...

But perhaps not as universal?

vertex-four11y ago

CC0 doesn't even necessarily require that you distribute the license text or copyright notice. You can use it as you'd use a public domain work - do anything with it.

vidarh11y ago

In France at least you can cede what in English would be called copyright. What you can not sell are the moral rights, and this is the case or a bunch of European countries.

I'm not aware of any European countries where you can not cede reproduction rights / proprietary rights?

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