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I'm not a programmer, but what exactly stops people from using Creative Commons licences? If nothing, why isn't it standard practice to see some bit of code be released as "CC BY-SA", and others "CC 0" (etc)?
I'm not a lawyer, but the argument I always hear is that the Creative Commons licenses don't directly say anything about software and don't cover any of the unique ways in which software can be used. If you were to use a creative commons license on your code, it'd be mostly up to interpretation how the more abstract language of "works" applies to it, which is something that hasn't (to my knowledge) been decided in a court
There is also the lack of patent protection issue: https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/25/fedora_sours_on_creative_commons/