[copyleft-next] An interesting take on license compatibility

Gervase Markham gerv at mozilla.org
Wed May 22 08:34:16 UTC 2013


On 22/05/13 06:49, Richard Fontana wrote:
> Yes, but (in my own mind) what that means has recently been
> changing, or weakening if you will. 

Courage, brother! ;-)

> copyleft-next is partly motivated by a desire to reduce complexity
> associated with the GPL. It is also motivated by a desire to create a
> new GPL-ish strong copyleft license. What I'm now starting to think is
> that that problem of complexity may be inherent to how strong copyleft
> is conceived by those who have tried to express what it means. 

Where is the nexus of that complexity? Is it in the boundary definition
of what is covered and what is not? Or elsewhere?

> I don't think copyleft-next should be *forward* compatible with MPL,
> however. That would clearly be admitting total defeat. :)

Well, indeed :-)

Gerv


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