On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Anselm R. Garbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This whole discussion about licenses supports my first reason > why I don't choose GPL: I don't understand it in any detail, > because it is too long and covers to many things which I can't > remember as a whole. And I doubt most developers who license > their stuff under the terms of the GPL actually really know any > detail and possible impact of the GPL.
Create your license: take the MIT, and add something like "this clause takes precedence on any previous clauses: in no case you will use/interact with this code in any ways for/from closed source programs, for ever" Then you have a kind of GPL. If you want a LGPL, you remove the interact part. > > Hence discussions about complex licenses tend to be complex as > well, as this discussion shows (same applies to discussions > about complex software). So, instead of joining a discussion > here, I think, that the time is better invested into real > development ;) > > To the proposal I should ask the FFSE guys about things I don't > understand: I think this proposal is fair, but actually I really > prefer to spend my time into developing something, instead > of discussing legal things in theory and practice. The GPL is a > very juristic text in my eyes and as usual for juristic persons, > there is so much interpretation in it, depending on their model > of freedom, thinking, culture, justice, etc. that it might be an > expensive (in the matters of time) discussion. > > A decent license for less suckish software in my eyes, should be > easy to grasp and to understand and should not be any longer > than the source code itself it restricts or protects to some > extend ;) If someone is able to write a copyleft license which > might be agreed as open source license and which is as simple to > grasp as the MIT license, please volunteer! > > Kind regards, > -- > Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361 > > -- use single GPL licensed software, use Linux and secure your digital freedom!