"Riley Baird (Orthogonal)" <orthogo...@librewrt.org> writes:
> On 05/08/14 12:10, Felipe Sanches wrote: >> Is there something similar to http://choosealicense.com/ but with language >> better aligned to the mission of the free software movement ? > > I don't know, but personally, I think that a fork over something like > this would be a bad idea. We don't fork every program that uses the word > "Linux" instead of "GNU/Linux" to refer to the operating system in its > documentation, for example. If you're concerned about it, perhaps you > could write to the maintainer and ask them to use neutral terms (e.g. > "FLOSS" instead of "OSS" on their main page). > > Well, there are a lot of other problems with the license chooser in addition to that. It is pretty anti-copyleft. We submitted a patch to fix the factual description of the GPL and it was rejected. For example, the choice to present the GPL's protections as restrictions/requirements is a loaded one. -john -- John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: 61A0963B | http://status.fsf.org/johns | http://fsf.org/blogs/RSS Do you use free software? Donate to join the FSF and support freedom at <http://www.fsf.org/register_form?referrer=8096>.
