[License-discuss] Shortest copyleft licence

[Rick Moen]

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.

> 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.

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