[License-discuss] Shortest copyleft licence

[Daunevin Janz]

On 30-Mar-15, at 1:40 AM, Tim Makarios wrote:

> I posted this question to the contact form at opensource.org, which  
> sent
> me an automated response suggesting (among other things) posting the
> question to this list, which I thought was a good idea.
>
> I like copyleft licences preventing derivative works from being
> re-monopolized, but every copyleft licence I've seen is quite  
> long.  Is
> there a really short copyleft licence, comparable in length to,  
> say, the
> ISC licence?  It may be hard to write a copyleft licence quite that
> short, but I'm sure someone can do better than what I've seen so far.
> What's the shortest copyleft licence people on this list know of?  It
> doesn't have to be specifically a software licence; it could be one
> designed for free cultural works in general.
>
> I think the shortest copyleft licence I've seen so far (judging it
> against the others by glancing at the text in a browser) is the Open
> Publication Licence [1], which a more careful (automated) word-count
> measures at nearly 800 words.
>
> [1] http://opencontent.org/openpub/
>
> Tim
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