[copyleft-next] has anyone done a proof of concept permissive.next based?

Luis Villa luis at tieguy.org
Wed Sep 26 17:19:19 UTC 2012


On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Mike Linksvayer <ml at gondwanaland.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Luis Villa <luis at tieguy.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Richard Fontana
>> <fontana at 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


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