Hi team. The Creative Commons CC0‑1.0 waiver was not designed for source code and is not usually recommended for source code either. For instance, CC0‑1.0 explicitly does not contain a patent grant (§4.a). That issue may not be a consideration for your use‑case. But code under CC0‑1.0 is not inbound compatible with the MIT license — or indeed any other common open source software license — and must therefore remain legally siloed here. A good place to study license texts is on the SPDX license list:
I suggest the project re‑licenses under MIT if at all possible. Otherwise, the wider issues are reviewed in the following publication, along with a diagram (fig 3) showing license compatibilities — while noting that diagram is unfortunately wrong in respect of CC0‑1.0:
If you need further advice or help, feel free to ask. Robbie
Hi team. The Creative Commons CC0‑1.0 waiver was not designed for source code and is not usually recommended for source code either. For instance, CC0‑1.0 explicitly does not contain a patent grant (§4.a). That issue may not be a consideration for your use‑case. But code under CC0‑1.0 is not inbound compatible with the MIT license — or indeed any other common open source software license — and must therefore remain legally siloed here. A good place to study license texts is on the SPDX license list:
I suggest the project re‑licenses under MIT if at all possible. Otherwise, the wider issues are reviewed in the following publication, along with a diagram (fig 3) showing license compatibilities — while noting that diagram is unfortunately wrong in respect of CC0‑1.0:
If you need further advice or help, feel free to ask. Robbie