[License-discuss] Shortest copyleft licence

[David Woolley]

On 01/04/15 22:17, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting David Woolley (forums at david-woolley.me.uk):

>>
>> 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.

It means he may think that the licence is preventing the sort of 
commercial exploitation he doesn't like, but the commercial exploiter 
will ignore the words he is relying on and instead exploit based on 
their attempt to re-interpet the letter of the formal licence.