On 3/30/15, 10:00 PM, "Rick Moen" <r...@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
>It's an object lesson in why coders should not attempt to draft what are >often on this mailing list termed 'crayon licences'. > >A broader point: The quest for the shortest possible licence (of >whatever category) strikes me as solving the wrong problem. If your >problem is that you're dealing with people having difficulty contending >with the reality of a worldwide copyright regime and trying to wish it >out of their lives, maybe overcoming that lack of reality orientation >ought to be your task. (My opinion, yours for a small fee and waiver of >reverse-engineering rights.) Or perhaps they simply wish software licenses were as easy to understand and use as the creative commons ones. It should be as easy as SC-BY-SA 1.0 with a clear english (or whatever) description without some debatable political/social agenda behind it all like with the FSF/GPL. _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
