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I'm not sure how practical that is and also I'll need to think about whether that's something that should be done.

I'll put down some of my thoughts below based on some research I did recently:

  1. This project put a license in place before the Fedora "decision". AFAIU, the license was put in place in 2021 and Fedora's stance came in 2022.
  2. So far I did not find other distributions (unrelated to Fedora, e.g. Red Hat doesn't count) that reject CC0 for software. For example, I think Debian allows it.
  3. The Fedora spokesperson statement below seems vague in various ways:

    The reason for the change: Over a long period of time a consensus has been building in FOSS that licenses that preclude any form of patent licensing or patent forbearance cannot be considered FOSS. CC0 has a clause that says: "No trademark or patent rights held by Affirmer are waived, abandoned, surrendered, licensed or otherwise affected by this document."

  4. The impression I got was that Fedora might have decided to make exceptions to the rule:

    This is a fairly unusual change and may have an impact on a nontrivial number of Fedora packages (that is not clear to me right now), and we may grant a carveout for existing packages that include CC0-covered code.

  5. Although this project doesn't have a large number of contributors to the code, it seems possible that they might all need to consent to relicensing.
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