[License-discuss] Shortest copyleft licence
John Cowan
cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Tue Mar 31 11:59:46 UTC 2015
Tim Makarios scripsit:
> 50 words. It doesn't require making the source code available, but
> recipients of binaries will always be free to make derivative works by
> reverse engineering the binaries. It does make itself incompatible with
> other copyleft licences, though, which seems difficult to avoid in a
> very short, non-weak copyleft licence. I'd be keen to be proven wrong
> on that point, though.
Simply add "or under the GNU General Purpose License (any version)".
In practice, the GPL is the only major copyleft software commons.
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