Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: FreeGPL license proposal (was Re: Linus Speaks About KDE-Bashing) | Date | Tue, 14 Jul 1998 01:17:53 +0100 (BST) |
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> So who's up for creating a "FreeGPL" license, extra-capitalistic > rather than anti-capitalistic in spirit? A license where "share the
GPL is ambivalent to capitalism. It does what it should, it protects software from being tied to commercial stuff
> heal the current divisions in the open source world, and as a bonus would > create a license that doesn't have loopholes the size of Nebraska and > doesn't require an army of lawyers to interpret.
Forget it ;) The GPL is remarkable in its size
> That's it. Clear, simple, unambiguous (It's even simpler than the > above, because half the above describes what WON'T be present in the text
And you might as well use the FreeBSD license in many respects
> of the license!). It preserves copyright, preserves redistributability, > preserves the freedom of the source, allows people to use the source and
It doesnt. I can tie critical parts of your source to a closed binary API. At least try and understand what the GPL is doign.
You don't btw need your ficticious license either. You've pretty closely described the Mozilla license - which is an interesting midway camp between GPL and BSD and which has been drafted by bigtime corporate lawyers
So I think you have nothing to offer in that sense. And hey - if you like the NPL or some similar license for your software - use it.
Alan
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