Licensing problem about eep HOT 5 CLOSED

Our legal department says that in practice there is no issue but it is a good idea to change it to CC0, from now on (no need to change old EEPs). So I have decided to follow the Python example and update the instructions to say:

This document is placed in the public domain or under the CC0-1.0-Universal license, whichever is more permissive.

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I will check with our legal department.

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For what it's worth, in France you cannot voluntarily place a piece of work in the public domain because you cannot give up your moral right over it. Whether an EEP is considered a piece of work in that regard is another question entirely, though.

Changing to CC0 by default would probably be better.

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I believe we have taken the template from the Python PEP documents that use the same wording. Maybe they have had a similar discussion and have some more information?

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Their template now says:

This document is placed in the public domain or under the CC0-1.0-Universal license, whichever is more permissive.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0012/

I guess they did have a similar discussion.

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