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.
Because they suck for freedoms anyway. Who would care and most importantly *why*? I think we stand more to gain to focus on addressing FUD and stupidity over Free Software licenses rather than promoting archaic practices. In a way I think copyleft-next helps with this exact issue.
Don't get me wrong, I am not saying permissive licenses do not have their place today, quite the contrary, I've been promoting localizing the GPL [0] and using permissive licenses specifically even in the Linux kernel to help fight killing off proprietary drivers, but in the long run permissive licenses are old and decrepit. The importance of the GPL [1] is the freedoms they bring and guarantee to us as both a community and ecosystem, permissive licenses today are there simply a compromise to deal with current political and legal stupidity by part of certain OS vendors / projects and lastly archaic economic models. Sure permissive licenses can still be advanced and brought up to date, but for what purpose ?
[0] http://mcgrof.blogspot.com/2012/04/localizing-gpl.html [1] http://mcgrof.blogspot.com/2012/03/importance-of-gpl.html
Luis