Philipp Klaus Krause wrote: > Copyleft/share-alike seemed like a good idea to me for a long time. > However the large number of incompatible licenses like GPLv2 only, > GPLv3, CC-BY-SA fragment the free software/data/etc community and > everyone has to reinvent the wheel since the existing free stuff they > would like build upon is locked away from them by licenses that claim to > protect freedom.
BY-SA should not be used on code, and most programs can have different licences for code & data. I think it's only Debian who get really funny about this. The trend is toward unifying copyleft licences, with FDL/BY-SA compatibility still on the cards, GPL3 being more compatible with other licences, and OSI committed to preventing further licence proliferation. I don't deny that incompatible licences can be a pain, but then so can DRM, proprietary work, and all the other stuff that copyleft licences protect against. On balance, the former is an annoyance, whereas the latter is something worse. - Rob.
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