From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 69A717EE51 for ; Fri, 24 May 2013 00:11:03 +0200 (CEST) Received-SPF: None (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of zack@upsilon.cc) identity=pra; client-ip=91.121.245.170; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="zack@upsilon.cc"; x-sender="zack@upsilon.cc"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: None (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of zack@upsilon.cc) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=91.121.245.170; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="zack@upsilon.cc"; x-sender="zack@upsilon.cc"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: None (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of postmaster@upsilon.hackadomia.org) identity=helo; client-ip=91.121.245.170; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="zack@upsilon.cc"; x-sender="postmaster@upsilon.hackadomia.org"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ai0LAKKSnlFbefWq/2dsb2JhbABZgmchMEPBZwQBgQwWdIIjAQEFMgE1IQsYCSUPBRhEiA4DAwW6F44GgR4Wgl1hA5c6gSqKd4UggxE X-IPAS-Result: Ai0LAKKSnlFbefWq/2dsb2JhbABZgmchMEPBZwQBgQwWdIIjAQEFMgE1IQsYCSUPBRhEiA4DAwW6F44GgR4Wgl1hA5c6gSqKd4UggxE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.87,730,1363129200"; d="scan'208";a="18755916" Received: from upsilon.hackadomia.org ([91.121.245.170]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 24 May 2013 00:11:03 +0200 Received: from usha.takhisis.invalid (unknown [IPv6:2a01:e34:eecc:42f0:76e5:bff:fea7:56b8]) by upsilon.hackadomia.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9FFB196085 for ; Fri, 24 May 2013 00:11:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: by usha.takhisis.invalid (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3A6C168167C; Fri, 24 May 2013 00:11:02 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 00:11:02 +0200 From: Stefano Zacchiroli To: caml-list@inria.fr Message-ID: <20130523221102.GC29390@upsilon.cc> References: <20130522123427.GA1894@siouxsie> <519CC1C8.3060502@etorok.net> <20130522171907.GA6073@notk.org> <519DB8D2.5080102@glondu.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Licenses - Confusion On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 09:41:09AM +0100, Daniel Bünzli wrote: > Well as everyone seems to know and speak for the others, here's my > take. > > Regardless of copyleft -- which I'm certain could be expressed in a > BSD-like concise way Here we're getting *largely* OT for this list, but I bite (SCNR). The topic you raise here is fairly complex, so I'd be weary of "certainty" if I were you :) But the problem of the un-readability of GPLs by random developers, and in particular of GPLs 3.x, is real. There are interesting experiments in the area to try to improve things. The most prominent one I'm aware of is copyleft-next; you can read a recent license release here: https://gitorious.org/copyleft-next/copyleft-next/blobs/master/Releases/copyleft-next-0.3.0 Be sure to also read README and DISCLAIMER in the repository before trying to do anything with the license (even though the license has a GPL way out, so risks of screwing up very badly are quite low). A more introductory article on the underlying legal-ish issues is available at https://lwn.net/Articles/537559/ Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . zack@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »