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    Relicense all public domain modules to CC0. · 516c4779
    Rusty Russell authored
    I wrote all of most of them, for the others, here's the CCAN mailing
    list thread authorizing it:
    
    From: Timothy B. Terriberry <tterribe@xiph.org>
    Subject: Re: [ccan] Changing from Public Domain to CC0
    To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
    Cc: ccan@ozlabs.org
    Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 02:53:50 -0400
    
    Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
    
    > I want to change the License string (and add a symlink) to the following
    > trivial modules.  Please Ack.
    
    > isaac
    
    Ack.
    
    From: Alessandro Guido <ag@alessandroguido.name>
    Subject: Re: Changing from Public Domain to CC0
    To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
    Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:59:53 +0100
    Acked-by: default avatarAlessandro Guido <ag@alessandroguido.name>
    
    From: Brad Hards <bradh@frogmouth.net>
    Subject: Re: Changing from Public Domain to CC0
    To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
    Cc: Joey Adams <joeyadams3.14159@gmail.com>, Alessandro Guido <ag@alessandroguido.name>, Andreas Schlick <schlick@lavabit.com>, ccan@ozlabs.org
    Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 23:43:24 +1100
    
    On 31/10/12 17:43, Rusty Russell wrote:
    > Damn lawyers!
    >
    > Since Public Domain is a slippery concept outside certain countries, it
    > has been suggested that I formalize it to Creative Commons Zero.
    >
    > I want to change the License string (and add a symlink) to the following
    > trivial modules.  Please Ack.
    
    Ack.
    
    More generally, anything I've put into CCAN is so trivial that you can
    relicense it (to any Free / Open Source license) as part of any
    relicensing you can otherwise get agreement to.
    
    Brad
    
    [Sorry if this comes out in HTML - I'm stuck with unsat tools while
    travelling].
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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