This is the current draft of a new generalized license for applying
"copyleft" to a published work. I am especially interested in its use
by artists, and would be intersted to hear comments from people on the
list who might want to use such a license with their work.
The license permits anyone to copy and redistribute verbatim copies of
the work, and permits anyone to sample or modify all or part of the
work in a different work, provided that the different work is
published under the terms of this license, and that proper (and
proportionate) attribution and credit is given.
It's not a software license, per se; it was designed to be used on any
digital work recognized by copyright law (photographs and other
images, text, music and sound samples, etc. -- including software
program source code).
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