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This is amazing. Though I would recommend licensing under something like CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0.
While you are entitled to write your own license, nobody who is familiar with copyright licensing will ever use your material, as the license isn't commonly recognized.
This. People write all sorts of cute-sounding licenses that deter people from contributing or forking because of the unknown legal consequences.
Also for web hosting: https://peaceworks.ca/
I searched for your licence and believe it is the "Copyright-Only Dedication (based on United States law) or Public Domain Certification 1.0 United States" licence which isn't recommended for use by the people who wrote it. It also seems like it's only applicable within the United States, which I'm going to assume you don't want. They have a licence chooser you can use to find a recommended licence. The OP suggested one from this list.
You are right, I think it might worth suggesting it to the author on codeberg.
Edit: https://lemmy.ca/post/39897968/14863180
Yes, your license is self written. Use a standard license like the one I mentioned, and it'll allow people to have better understanding of the legal consequences, such that the content is actually suitable for use in other creative works.
For example, what happens if there are conflicts in laws with the license, which jurisdiction is the default? What is the legal status of derivative works?
There's too many unknowns, and for that reason, anyone understanding copyright law would entirely avoid using your content.
your license
I am not the project leader.
There's too many unknowns
Public domain?
You can do with the project what ever you want with no restrictions.
Some countries won't allow you to declare your work to be in the public domain (although Canada isn't one of them). Declaring it CC-0 does about the same thing while working around that issue.
Dont license NC. People gotta eat.
CC BY-SA is perfect
Non-Commercial doesn't mean you can't make money off of the content. It just means that the primary intent cannot be for money.
A commercial use is one primarily intended for commercial advantage or monetary compensation.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en#ref-commercial-purposes
Although corporate greed has arguably had a bigger contribution to preventing people from eating...