On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Mike Linksvayer ml@gondwanaland.com wrote:
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Luis Villa luis@tieguy.org wrote:
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Richard Fontana fontana@sharpeleven.org wrote:
On 09/22/2012 03:34 PM, Luis Villa wrote:
Just curious if anyone has thought about, looked at, or drafted a permissive license based on the structure, organization, and terminology of copyleft.next.
In fact I have thought about it (but didn't go beyond the 'thought' stage), not too after I had already started the project. Once a certain level of simplification of structure was achieved I realized it wouldn't be difficult to achieve this. Whether it is worth doing is an interesting idea to ponder.
If nothing else, it would be an interesting drafting exercise and might point out structural issues.
I'd love to see it. As I've carped elsewhere, the state of the art of permissive licenses is pretty poor.
(And I do think, if I could snap my fingers and change all licenses at once, having parallel licenses akin to CC-BY/CC-SA/CC-ND for Apache/MPL/EPL/GPL/AGPL would be a huge win for the world.)
ND really?
I knew I should have clarified that. Only included it to point out that a common framework does not prevent a rich/complex spectrum of permissiveness (akin to the finer shades between MPL/LGPL/GPL/AGPL), not to advocate that the free software world should have a specific NC or ND equivalent.
Luis