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[nottorp]

There is a license for that, you know...

[iLoveOncall → nottorp]

Yeah I know, and it should be the only option for open-source projects.

The rest is just bringing politics where it doesn't belong.

[oniony → nottorp]

One does not need a license for public domain.

[nottorp → oniony]

Pretty sure in some jurisdictions your public code is automatically copyright you.

You may not care but the potential users will, to be protected from you chaging your mind in the future.

[Jach → oniony]

It's theoretically helpful to at least put in a no-warranties clause. But sqlite as maybe the most popular public domain project worldwide doesn't (instead having just the declaration and a blessing). I mostly settled on the Unlicense https://unlicense.org/ over just declaring 'public domain' or 'CC0' as a simple text blob to paste in, and in the event of a significant contribution from someone else, there's a simple text blurb to ask them to say 'yes' to in order to keep the code unencumbered.

[pierat → oniony]

And in some jurisdictions, like Germany, there is no such "public domain".

In other jurisdictions, like England, museums can claim 'copyright' on antiquities, preventing 3d scanning and uploading.