The open source paradigm is a driving force behind (software) development for many years now. It brings together the best developers and produced marvels of modern technology.

Open and equitable world is a natural continuation of the open approach to your work and life.

It's all about contributing and sharing. It goes from open source to open data and onward and upward.

It's not about how you hide it and sell it. It's about how you receive it from others, enhance it and share it further.

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Creative Commons 0

CC0 is a huge leap for some yet natural for many of us.

It goes from "All rights reserved" to "No rights reserved".

(Source)

Quoting the CC website:

C0 enables scientists, educators, artists and other creators and owners of copyright- or database-protected content to waive those interests in their works and thereby place them as completely as possible in the public domain, so that others may freely build upon, enhance and reuse the works for any purposes without restriction under copyright or database law.

Please, read the examples at the website above and follow them.

The first step is to apply CC0 to your articles here at Steem.

It is easy with the code provided:. Enter the data and generate the code.

<p xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:vcard="http://www.w3.org/2001/vcard-rdf/3.0#">
  <a rel="license"
     href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">
    <img src="http://i.creativecommons.org/p/zero/1.0/88x31.png" style="border-style: none;" alt="CC0" />
  </a>
  <br />
  To the extent possible under law,
  <a rel="dct:publisher"
     href="http://busy.org/@ervin-lemark">
    <span property="dct:title">Ervin Lemark</span></a>
  has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to
  <span property="dct:title">Steem publications</span>.
This work is published from:
<span property="vcard:Country" datatype="dct:ISO3166"
      content="SI" about="http://busy.org/@ervin-lemark">
  Slovenia</span>.
</p>

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The code in action

To the extent possible under law, Ervin Lemark has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to Steem publications. This work is published from: Slovenia.

Of course, you can polish the looks of the code above yet the basic functionality is there. Your message that you apply CC0 to your works is sent to the Universe.

The next step could be adding this code to your footer and using it with every post. The added bonus is that the code contains the link to the page of your choice. In the example above, to my Steem profile page on Busy.org.

This way you promote both CC0 and Steem.

You can also apply #cc0 tag to your posts when you decide so.

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While I was looking for the code above I also joined the CC community.

Do the same and share of love of open everything.

This article started as an invitation to use CC0 code in your posts. During writing it git turned upside down and the values, promoted in it became the main actors. CC0 is then just one of the aspect of living these values and demonstrating them in your work.

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Better and better