On 02/14/2013 04:40 AM, Richard Fontana wrote:
Does anyone think the idea of a limited-term copyleft --
particularly
given that copyleft-next is a software-oriented license -- is a
good/bad idea?
We're now a few years from the point where there could be 30-year-old
code under GPL-like licenses. I have found from $DAYJOB experience
that one occasionally has to deal with legal issues concerning
*really* old code (in a situation I dealt with today, from 1979;
admittedly that's unusual).
The idea would be to have the copyleft terms disappear after some
limited period far short of the statutory copyright term.
The only reason I can see for wanting this is to deal with copyleft
license compatibility issues. Which in my experience are not enough of
a problem to weaken the copyleft nature of the work in this way.
-- kuno / warp.