[License-discuss] Shortest copyleft licence

[Daunevin Janz]

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On 30-Mar-15, at 10:54 AM, Daunevin Janz wrote:

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