Re: [GNU-linux-libre] choosealicense.com fork with better wording, perhaps ?

2014-08-18 Thread John Sullivan
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

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] choosealicense.com fork with better wording, perhaps ?

2014-08-18 Thread Riley Baird
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. What part of their description is untrue? This is all the information I could find on the GPL on

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] choosealicense.com fork with better wording, perhaps ?

2014-08-18 Thread Jason Self
Riley Baird asked: What part of their description is untrue? One example: Presenting the anti-tivoization provisions in the GPLv3 as a restriction. If you listen to Tom Preston-Werner's (GitHub co-founder) anti-GPL keynote from OSCON his position on the GPL will become clear and shouldn't be