[License-discuss] Shortest copyleft licence

[Rick Moen]

Quoting David Woolley (forums at david-woolley.me.uk):
> On 01/04/15 18:32, Tzeng, Nigel H. wrote:
>
> >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.

IMO, their pain is a happy accident.

So, basically, what's your point?  I believe Nigel's audience of concern
was reasonable people seeking to understand a legal instrument, not
rules-lawyering proprietary software businesspeople.