[License-discuss] Shortest copyleft licence

Maxthon Chan xcvista at me.com
Wed Apr 1 15:01:47 UTC 2015


How to use CC in software licensing then? Or do we need a specific CC variant or addendum for code?

> On Apr 1, 2015, at 22:37, Tzeng, Nigel H. <Nigel.Tzeng at jhuapl.edu> wrote:
> 
> On 3/31/15, 3:24 PM, "Rick Moen" <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Quoting Tzeng, Nigel H. (Nigel.Tzeng at jhuapl.edu):
>> 
>>> Or perhaps they simply wish software licenses were as easy to understand
>>> and use as the creative commons ones.
>> 
>> Yes, it's common to wish that highly technical fields (such as law) were
>> simple.
>> 
>> Very small benefit, large downside as shown by those who've gotten this
>> wrong.
> 
> Creative Commons seems successful and it does not appear that they have
> ³gotten this wrong².
> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> A copyleft licence without a political/social agenda?  I'll await this
>> with interest.
> 
> CC-BY-SA
> 
> Sufficiently apolitical for me without manifestos, widely accepted and
> used.
> 
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