[License-discuss] Shortest copyleft licence

[David Woolley]

On 01/04/15 18:32, Tzeng, Nigel H. wrote:
> Have I read all the legalese behind the CC licenses?  No.  I trust the
> brand and while I have perused some just as a sanity check I also realize
> that I¹m not a lawyer and I would miss the nuances anyway.
>
> So I depend that the CC organization has put forth a best effort in making
> sure the human-readable summaries match the legal text.

A significant number of postings on this list are from people who are 
trying to interpret GPL in a way that would be inconsistent with any 
CC-like summary of it.  Those people would still try to find loopholes 
based on the full licence, not the lay summary.