cc0

this website, and much of the stuff i make in general, is licensed under cc0 1.0

which is less a license and more a public domain dedication with a fallback where that's not possible (because lawmakers didn't predict this level of masochism altruism)

so here's info on that (or you can read the official faq)

tl;dr: pretty much anything

this website sometimes contains things that can't be cc0'd, e.g. translations of other people's works or fan-art

it should be clear from context when that's the case, or if you're a context-incapable scraper you can look for the .copyrighted html class

if i ever do then i might use some sort of copyleft or even copyfarleft license

but for now i'm not worried about my things being abused commercially or for nazi purposes because there's not much there to abuse

individual bad actors don't usually care about copyright anyway (and especially not about the author's wishes)

and companies (assuming they wanna steal my garbage in the first place) have lawyers and i don't

youtube copyright claims are a thing i guess but i'd have to dox myself and all and beh

see: [minecraft sound attributions](https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/attribution/sound

and i'd rather not force myself on them, e.g. if someone were to make a song that's a mishmash of samples (a la marble soda) it would be impractical to credit a hundred separate artists wherever the song's used

here's a similar idea in the context of datasets

which yeah that's based but it's a real problem for ios developers (at least real enough that oga-by exists)

,,though in a similar vein cc0 is unsuitable for code because it doesn't give patent rights

there's a fork called cc_-1 (which is a bit weird in its phrasing), while every so often i quadruple-license under cc0/unlicense/0bsd/wtfpl because it's funny

it might also be the case that copyright law makes it impossible for any license at all to be irrevocable but shhh

nicky case is way more popular than me and cc0·s all her stuff and i don't think there's any notable misuse of it

also this sounds iffy but perhaps: if others sell my stuff then that just tells me there's a market for me to do it and i can perhaps get some publicity from calling them out (not like "hey they stole my stuff" just "hey this stuff is free elsewhere")

i wrote the "train a neural network" part before the realization hit me, now i'm honestly not sure

currently tentatively keeping it because if someone bothers to ask me they're probably training a non-threateningly small network with sub-human capabilities, whereas the networks i'm worried about are generally trained without consent

but that might change soon, and while i don't have many works to speak of uhh something something principle of the thing idk

(also the organization that published the license holds that training models constitutes fair use, that's not very relevant but i wanted to put it here)