Re: [GNU-linux-libre] choosealicense.com fork with better wording, perhaps ?

[Julian Marchant]

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On 08/19/2014 03:14 AM, Riley Baird wrote:
> On 19/08/14 07:36, Jason Self wrote: Someone has pointed out that
> the FSF has a license guide already [1]. However, this guide has a
> strong bias towards copyleft.
> 
> Personally, I think that the community would benefit from a guide 
> written from an objective point of view - getting people from both
> sides of the debate to write their side, and then combining the
> pieces into a guide that lets the user see the best arguments of
> both sides.

Benefit in what way? If you're making software libre because you care
about freedom, the FSF's guide is perfect. For such a person, I can't
imagine any advantages for permissive licenses that guide doesn't
already cover. The only people I can think of who would want to use
permissive licenses in any other case are people who are making some
of their software libre for purely practical reasons and don't want it
to affect their development of proprietary software, and people who
think copyleft is unethical. I don't see any reason for us to deal
with the former group (that's the open source crowd's department and
not very productive for us), and for the latter group, they're not
going to consider copyleft at all.

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