Re: notices for CC0

[Ineiev]

On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 07:17:02AM -0400, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> CC0 is not a "copyright" license, so the text "Copyright (c)" makes
> little sense since the goal is to put the work into the Public Domain
> -- i.e. no copyright applied.

Strictly speaking, the Public Domain consists of works that are old
enough or made by the US or so; CC0 emulates it using copyright
as the means.

> As to what Creative Commons and FSF recommend for non-GNU projects is
> kinda not relevant to what GNU projects are recommended to do by the
> FSF.

So should GNU maintainers add copyright lines to CC0d files? what
about non-gnu Savannah programs? which recommendation applies to them?
what should the hosting requirement be (we routinely point
to GNU Maintainer Info to tell how software should be packaged)?

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