Use the Unlicense instead of CC0 to represent the public domain

licenses/public-domain.txt

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 layout: license
 permalink: /licenses/public-domain/
 class: license-types
-title: Public Domain (CC0)
+title: Public Domain (Unlicense)
 
-description: Because copyright attaches automatically in many countries, the Creative Commons CC0 License is recommended to ensure that your work is available everywhere under terms that most closely follow the spirit of a public domain work.
+description: The Unlicense is a template for disclaiming copyright interest in software you've written, a template for dedicating your software to the public domain. It combines a copyright waiver patterned after the very successful public domain SQLite project with the no-warranty statement from the widely-used MIT/X11 license.
 
-how: Create a text file (typically named LICENSE or LICENSE.txt) in the root of your source code and copy the text of the license into the file. You can alternatively use the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/">Creative Commons CC0 tool</a> to generate HTML with embedded metadata to mark your work as CC0.
+how: Create a text file (typically named UNLICENSE or UNLICENSE.txt) in the root of your source code and copy the text of the license disclaimer into the file.
 
 required: 
 
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   - no-liability
 
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