On 7 June 1999, Lyno Sullivan wrote:
> Among these licenses I would prefer the WGPL because I value
> most highly the proliferation of copyleft and, in order to further that
> proliferation, seek to grant an additional freedom, namely, the freedom
> to preserve copyleft free of the encumbrance of having to preserve
> the attribution trail.
I don't see that the Linart archives include your WGPL proposal.
Here it is for further critical review. Not under WGPL itself, so
I gotta include the copyright attribution... : )
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WITHOUT-ATTRIBUTION GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
This License applies to any work (Original) which contains
a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be
copied, distributed and modified under the terms of a named
"Base" license and subject to the Without-attribution
General Public License (WGPL).
The "Base" license must be one of the following three (3)
licenses: the GNU General Public License (GPL), the GNU
Library General Public License (LGPL), or the Public
Domain.
The WGPL License may be considered as a patch license that
preserves all of the conditions of the named Base license
with the superceding condition that attribution back to the
Original work is optional.
The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution
and modification follow.
1. If you copy or distribute a verbatim copy, you must
either leave the Original copyright notice intact or you
must meet condition (2).
2. If you modify (or do not modify) the work, you may
remove the Original copyright notice, provided that you
also meet all of these conditions:
a) If the Original work is under the GPL, your work that
contains a portion of the Original must be properly
licensed under the GPL.
b) If the Original work is under the LGPL, your work that
contains a portion of the Original must be properly
licensed under either the GPL or the LGPL.
c) If the Original work is under the Public Domain, your
work that contains a portion of the Original must be
properly licensed under the GPL (with or without the WGPL)
or the LGPL (with or without the WGPL) or the Public Domain
(with the WGPL) or any other non-proprietary copyleft
license listed directly on "What Is Copyleft?"
<http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html> (with or
without the WGPL).
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Copyright(c) 1998 Lyno Sullivan; this work is free and may
be copied, modified and distributed under the GNU Library
General Public License (LGPL) and it comes with absolutely
NO WARRANTY <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lgpl.html>;
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