CC0 no longer allowed in Fedora. Move to 0BSD?

[gioele]

The use of CC0 for code is no longer allowed in Fedora (see https://lwn.net/Articles/902410/.) This kind of changes tend to extend to other distributions such as Debian and SUSE after a while.

Would it be possible to relicense bats-support to another, more widely accepted, public-domain-equivalent license such as 0BSD¹?

Footnotes

1. https://opensource.org/licenses/0BSD ↩

[martin-schulze-vireso]

I'd hope for a grandfather clause. I don't think we will be able to get all contributor's approval for a relicensing.

[principis]

Hi! I was just packaging bats-support and bats-assert, but noticed the license. There are only 4 contributors, I believe it has a good chance of succeeding.

[jasonkarns]

I would be in support of moving to 0BSD. I can't speak for @ztombol , but given that the CC0 already contributes the source code to the public domain and waives copyright, I don't think there should be any conflict?

[martin-schulze-vireso]

IANAL so I think it would be best to get permission from all contributors. I am open for changing to 0BSD. This means we still need to hear from @Flamefire and @jlisee.

Since @ztombol does not seem to be active on GitHub anymore, I tried contacting them via their commit author mail.

[Flamefire]

I have no issue with that. So permission from me.

[jasonkarns]

Bump @jlisee

[jlisee]

I am OK with changing the license to 0BSD sorry for being late.

[jasonkarns]

No problem and thank you for your contributions!!

[martin-schulze-vireso]

Unfortunately, I did not hear Back from @ztombol

[jasonkarns]

Personally, I think we're fine to relicense. The CC0 license is effectively granting any permission to do anything to anyone, so I don't see any issue with the new license. And FWIW, the majority of the bats-support code was an extraction of my work to begin with. I think we should proceed with the relicense.

[martin-schulze-vireso]

Okay, but don't sue me. 😄

[Romain-Geissler-1A]

Hi,

Would it make sense to also relicence bats-assert as well ? Some of the people who ok-ed this change here are also contributors of bats-assert. See bats-core/bats-assert#51

And what about other core bats libraries like bats-file ?