[copyleft-next] Limited-term copyleft

Richard Fontana fontana at sharpeleven.org
Thu Feb 14 06:34:52 UTC 2013


On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 06:53:51AM +0100, Kuno Woudt wrote:
> 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?
[...]
> 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.

Since you are the only person I know of who is actually using
copyleft-next as a license, this is enough to make me want to reject
the idea (or at most make it an optional configuration, but in that
case I'm not sure it's worth the extra words/lines of text). :)


 - RF


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