[copyleft-next] exceptions/additional-permissions & weak copyleft

Richard Fontana fontana at sharpeleven.org
Sun Aug 5 22:26:30 UTC 2012


On 08/05/2012 10:37 AM, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:

> I think FSF's goal is to propose the right copyleft for a given
> situation.  After all, both strong and weak copyleft were invented by
> FSF.

In the interest of historical accuracy, there is some reason to
believe that weak copyleft was invented by Cygnus, and that Cygnus
encouraged the FSF to adopt the invention.

 - Richard





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