[cc-community] PB Dedication (license?)

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Wed Oct 4 13:51:30 EDT 2006


On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 12:33 -0500, Edward Bryant wrote:
> The language recommended by CC for linking to their public domain
> dedication includes the CC No Rights Reserved logo and the words "This
> work is licensed under a Creative Commons Public Domain License."
>  
> This isn't the best language right?
>  
> The CC "license" itself isn't really a license and correctly doesn't
> even use the word in its text. It is entitled simply a "Public Domain
> Dedication." Unlike the other CC licenses, the PB dedication is a
> relinquishment of any rights and the ability to control the work.
>  
> With that in mind I changed my own linking language to "All Rights in
> the above work are relinquished under a Creative Commons Public Domain
> Dedication."
>  
> Does anyone see any problems/issues with making this change? Isn't it
> more accurate for the PB Dedication?  


Yes it is more accurate.  It looks like we introduced a bug which caused
the PD dedication process to hand out a notice using the standard CC
license notice language.  Will be fixed tomorrow.

Thanks for the bug report!

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