From 6f2f4aa23353e75baa53cfb735bf1c9b8d635f60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jon Atack Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 15:00:19 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] BIP3: refer to CC0 1.0 Universal per https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.en and add a missing word Co-authored-by: Tim Ruffing --- bip-0003.md | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/bip-0003.md b/bip-0003.md index a186cef7..fc403d66 100644 --- a/bip-0003.md +++ b/bip-0003.md @@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ For example, a preamble might include the following License header: License: CC0-1.0 OR MIT -In this case, the BIP (including all auxiliary files) is made available under the terms of both Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal as well as the +In this case, the BIP (including all auxiliary files) is made available under the terms of both CC0 1.0 Universal as well as the MIT License, and anyone may modify and redistribute it provided they comply with the terms of *either* license, at their option. In other words, the license list is an "OR choice", not an "AND also" requirement. See the [SPDX documentation](https://spdx.dev/ids/) and the [SPDX License List](https://spdx.org/licenses/) for further details. @@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ acceptable license L from the following list and another SPDX License Expression * BSD-2-Clause: [BSD 2-Clause License](https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause) * BSD-3-Clause: [BSD 3-Clause License](https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause) -* CC0-1.0: [Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) +* CC0-1.0: [CC0 1.0 Universal](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) * FSFAP: [FSF All Permissive License](https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/License-Notices-for-Other-Files.html) * CC-BY-4.0: [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) * MIT: [Expat/MIT/X11 License](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) @@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ acceptable license L from the following list and another SPDX License Expression #### Not Acceptable Licenses All licenses not explicitly included in the above lists are not acceptable terms for a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal. -However, BIPs predating this proposal were accepted under other terms, and should use one the following identifiers. +However, BIPs predating this proposal were accepted under other terms, and should use one of the following identifiers. * LicenseRef-PD: Placed into the public domain * OPUBL-1.0: [Open Publication License 1.0](https://opencontent.org/openpub/)