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The Creative Commons Zero / Public Domain Dedication / CC0 is the closest thing to a legally enforceable antonym of copyright.
and for those that don't like CC licenses applied to code, 0BSD is also an option
CC0 is the one CC licence you can safely use for code, as per the official recommendations. For all other CC licences, it is (strongly) discouraged.
What about the Unlicense?
Weird/confusing name, questionable legality and the website went down a while back (while mentioned explicitly in the licence...)
Use CC0 1.0 or Zero Clause BSD instead. They are more reputable, and all decent "public domain equivalent" licences are... well, equivalent in effect, anyway.
Unlicense only works in some legal systems. You cannot put your own work into the public domain in many european nations for example.
See this link: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/147120
afaik some people are worried about the "legal enforceability" of the unlicense, which is funny given the point of it is to be an explicit "go do what you want" license.
if it explicitly granted patent rights i would definitely use it for software tbh