On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Jamie Bullock wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 01:22 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > <snip> >> Actually any of the CC licenses are bad for software, and really in >> general, IMHO. They are not compatible with the Debian Free Software >> Guidelines, and every single one has an really vague attribution >> clause that should be avoided. > > OK, what software license would you recommend for someone who wants to > place the 'share alike' restriction on their Pd patch? The GPL is really > geared towards compiled languages, and a lot of the wording is > irrelevant in the context of a Pd patch IMO.
I think the GPL is perfectly relevant here. If you want people to distribute their changes, then the GPL will be totally effective for Pd patches. >> If you want to know more, check out my essay Copyright Is For Copying >> in the new book: >> >> http://goto10.org/flossart/ > > Great! I just added it to my Amazon wishlist. If you are impatient, you can start with this blog entry, which then got turned into that article, along with a bunch of research: http://at.or.at/hans/blog/2007/01/14/problems-with-cc-attribution-clauses/ I should mention, mako hill writes quite a bit about this stuff too: http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/20080221-00 .hc > > Jamie > > > -- > www.postlude.co.uk > http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamiebullock > > -- > www.postlude.co.uk > http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamiebullock > > > > Birmingham City University is the new name unveiled for the former University > of Central England in Birmingham > For more information about the name change go to > http://www.bcu.ac.uk/namechange/official_announcement.html > zen \ \ \[D[D[D[D _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
