* Darryl Plank <[email protected]> [2015-07-13 00:39:24 +0200]: > To my knowledge, the FSF has only ever stated three reasons why copyleft > might not be desirable: > > 1) For very short programs, where a simpler and much shorter license might > be more appropriate from a practical point of view. The FSF web site gives a > very short and simple license for such purposes. > > 2) When extending free software that already exists, to avoid using a license > different from that used by the original developers. > > 3) As a more or less short term tactic, as a way of making free software more > well known and better appreciated when it was not. For such cases, the LGPL > was developed.
I would add 4) If you want to push a standard (e.g. with Ogg Vorbis). Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - Vice President FSFE Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany - t +49-30-27595290 Weblog (blogs.fsfe.org/mk) - Contact (fsfe.org/about/kirschner) Receive monthly Free Software news (fsfe.org/news/newsletter.html) Your donation enables our work (fsfe.org/donate) _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
