[License-discuss] Shortest copyleft licence

[Maxthon Chan]

I have a gut feeling that this thread have somewhat common point as my “simple English BSD equivalent” thread as there are just too many politics and complexities involved in those licenses and engineers, being not-so-professional in law, gets confused easily.

I still remembered my days reading through 17 USC and Chinese copyright law just to grasp an idea on how copyright works, and before I filed my patents I bought a book on how patent laws work. I have to educate myself in those legal concepts just to protect my own work.

> On Apr 1, 2015, at 01:54, Tzeng, Nigel H. <Nigel.Tzeng at jhuapl.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
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