On 01/16/2013 03:46 AM, Kuno Woudt wrote:
The FSF somewhat assumes use of their "version X or later"
clause, in
that case a permalink to
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html is
perhaps appropriate.
However, they also have good links for each version, e.g.:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
etc..
> I hadn't thought about permalinks as such.
>
> I have had vague ideas for a copyleft-next website, and in fact it
> exists, but is quite minimal at the moment:
>
http://copyleft-next.org/
>
> But also, for some time I have had an empty 'Releases' directory in
> the file structure for the copyleft-next source repository,
> anticipating that numbered releases would be stored therein.
I certainly would appreciate [1] good permanent links for each versioned
release, preferably both a plain text and html version of the license.
Possibly also an unversioned link pointing to the latest version as the
FSF does, if your intent is that copyleft-next is typically used with an
"version X or later" clause.
This makes sense.
Note that copyleft-next currently has the rule "or-later by default,
unless the licensor in question explicitly removes such permission.
- RF
-- kuno / warp.
[1] as some of you may know, one of my side projects is to build a
database of free software / open source software / free culture license
metadata, which benefits from having a good way to identify a particular
license (
https://licensedb.org ).
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