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In a future commit, I plan on adding a sound effect to this project. I’m
not going to make the sound effect myself. Instead, I’m going to find
one that’s either available under a free license or in the public
domain. It’s more likely that I’ll end up finding a freely licensed one
than a public domain one.

If I do end up finding something that’s available under a free license,
then that license will probably require that I include a copy of it. For
the sake of consistency, this commit makes it a policy to include a copy
of every legal tool that at least some content in this repository is
available under.

Since this repo already contains CC0’d content, this commit adds a copy
of CC0. While progress has been made [1] into closing the
CC0-not-available-under-CC0 loophole [2] [3], it’s not fully closed.
Creative Commons assigned someone to one of the issues, and that
assignee said that CC0 __should__ already be available under CC0 [1].
This, unfortunately, isn’t quite the same as Creative Commons outright
saying that CC0 __is__ available under CC0. Additionally, some text was
added to CC’s Licensing Statement for Content and Software Code [4]
which dedicates “the text of all of the notices and accompanying text on
the license pages” to the public domain using CC0. The key words here
are “on the license pages”. CC0 is not a license [5] so that quote,
unfortunately, doesn’t apply to CC0. Ugh.

With that in mind, I decided to still include attribution text for the
portions of CC0 that are (potentially) CC BY 4.0 licensed. It’s probably
not necessary, but I’d rather err on the side of caution.

[1]: <https://github.com/creativecommons/creativecommons.org/issues/1218#issuecomment-1212525987>
[2]: <creativecommons/creativecommons.org#1212>
[3]: <https://github.com/creativecommons/creativecommons.org/issues/1218>
[4]: <https://creativecommons.org/policies#licensing%20statement>
[5]: <https://creativecommons.org/faq/#how-do-cc-licenses-operate>
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Creative Commons Legal Code

CC0 1.0 Universal

CREATIVE COMMONS CORPORATION IS NOT A LAW FIRM AND DOES NOT PROVIDE
LEGAL SERVICES. DISTRIBUTION OF THIS DOCUMENT DOES NOT CREATE AN
ATTORNEY-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP. CREATIVE COMMONS PROVIDES THIS
INFORMATION ON AN "AS-IS" BASIS. CREATIVE COMMONS MAKES NO WARRANTIES
REGARDING THE USE OF THIS DOCUMENT OR THE INFORMATION OR WORKS
PROVIDED HEREUNDER, AND DISCLAIMS LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM
THE USE OF THIS DOCUMENT OR THE INFORMATION OR WORKS PROVIDED
HEREUNDER.

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culture and the further production of creative, cultural and scientific
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SPDX-FileAttributionText: Parts of the “CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication” <https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode> by Creative Commons <https://creativecommons.org/> are licensed under CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>. Parts of the “CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication” are available under the CC0 Public Domain Dedication <https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>. More details can be found at <https://github.com/creativecommons/creativecommons.org/issues/1212> and <https://github.com/creativecommons/creativecommons.org/issues/1218>.
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This project uses [SPDX license list short identifiers] and [SPDX file tags] to
declare its copying information.

## SPDX Metadata Files

Normally, [SPDX license list short identifiers] and [SPDX file tags] are put in
the files they describe. For example, in a comment at the top of this file,
there’s an [SPDX file tag] which says that “Jason Yundt” [contributed](https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/v2.3/file-information/#814-file-contributor-field)
to this file.

Sometimes, for technical reasons, an [SPDX license list short identifier] or
[SPDX file tag] can’t be included in the file itself. For example,
[`Pipfile.lock`](https://pipenv.pypa.io/en/stable/basics/) is a [JSON] file.
[JSON files can’t have comments](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/244777/can-comments-be-used-in-json),
so there isn’t a good place to put an [SPDX license list short identifier] or
[SPDX file tag] in a [JSON] file.

The solution: SPDX Metadata Files. SPDX Metadata Files are [plain text](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2046.html#section-4.1)
files who’s names end with “`.spdx-meta`”. Every SPDX Metadata File has a
companion file. A SPDX Metadata File must be in the same folder as its
companion file in order to be valid. The SPDX Metadata File’s name must be the
companion file’s name with “`.spdx-meta`” added to the end. For example,
consider the following directory tree:

.
├── a
│   ├── foo.txt
│   └── foo.txt.spdx-meta
├── b
│   └── bar.txt.spdx-meta
├── bar.txt
└── bar.txt.spdx-meta

In this example,

- `./a/foo.txt.spdx-meta` is an SPDX Metadata File because its name ends with
`.spdx-meta`”. Its companion file is `./a/foo.txt`.
- `./bar.txt.spdx-meta` is also an SPDX Metadata File. Its companion file is
`./bar.txt`.
- `./b/bar.txt.spdx-meta` is an SPDX Metadata File, but it’s an invalid one.
It’s an SPDX Metadata File because its name ends with “`.spdx-meta`”. It’s
invalid because it has no companion file.

SPDX Metadata Files describe their companion files; [SPDX license list short
identifiers] and [SPDX file tags] in SPDX Metadata Files don’t describe the SPDX
Metadata Files that they’re in.

Consider that previous example again. If `./a/foo.txt.spdx-meta` contained
“SPDX-FileType” followed by a colon, a space and “DOCUMENTATION”, that would
mean that `./a/foo.txt` is a documentation file. That piece of information
alone tells you nothing about `./a/foo.txt.spdx-meta`.

All SPDX Metadata Files in this repo are dedicated to the public domain using
[the CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication].

## Location of legal tools

Any licenses that this repo uses can be found in the directory named
`LICENSES`. A copy of [the CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication] can be
found in the file named `CC0-1.0.txt`.

[JSON]: https://www.json.org/json-en.html
[NixOS]: https://nixos.org/
[SPDX file tag]: https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/v2.3/file-tags/
[SPDX file tags]: https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/v2.3/file-tags/
[SPDX license list short identifier]: https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/v2.3/using-SPDX-short-identifiers-in-source-files/
[SPDX license list short identifiers]: https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/v2.3/using-SPDX-short-identifiers-in-source-files/
[the CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication]: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

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