[License-discuss] Shortest copyleft licence

[Tzeng, Nigel H.]

On 3/30/15, 10:00 PM, "Rick Moen" <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:


>It's an object lesson in why coders should not attempt to draft what are
>often on this mailing list termed 'crayon licences'.
>
>A broader point:  The quest for the shortest possible licence (of
>whatever category) strikes me as solving the wrong problem.  If your
>problem is that you're dealing with people having difficulty contending
>with the reality of a worldwide copyright regime and trying to wish it
>out of their lives, maybe overcoming that lack of reality orientation
>ought to be your task.  (My opinion, yours for a small fee and waiver of
>reverse-engineering rights.)

Or perhaps they simply wish software licenses were as easy to understand
and use as the creative commons ones.

It should be as easy as SC-BY-SA 1.0 with a clear english (or whatever)
description without some debatable political/social agenda behind it all
like with the FSF/GPL.