It's a bit misleading to say the unlicence is an opt-out of the copyright game. The Public Domain is a complicated area, particularly internationally and you may not be allowed to opt-out in this way.
What exactly is being gained over BSD or Apache 2.0 licence to compensate for this risk?
And since "intellectual property" extends to more than copyright, how does this impact on patents etc.
Finally, if you're allowing others to come along and combine your work with their and then patent and copyright the result, it's not really an effective protest "against intellectual property" is it?
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It's a bit misleading to say the unlicence is an opt-out of the copyright game. The Public Domain is a complicated area, particularly internationally and you may not be allowed to opt-out in this way.
What exactly is being gained over BSD or Apache 2.0 licence to compensate for this risk?
And since "intellectual property" extends to more than copyright, how does this impact on patents etc.
Finally, if you're allowing others to come along and combine your work with their and then patent and copyright the result, it's not really an effective protest "against intellectual property" is it?
This is all covered in the article itself.