On 2012-01-26 13:06:31 +0100 (+0100), Martin Bagge / brother wrote: [...] > There are several articles about the problem with CC NC licenses, > exactly what that means is not clear. Make sure to study the field > before picking anything based on NC. > Pick license and pick it wise.
The historic quagmire with DikuMUD's license (and subsequent inability of derivative software authors to be able to round up all the original copyright holders for later relicensing) is a great example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DikuMUD#DikuMUD_license The project was widely used and a fertile developer community emerged around it back in the shareware days before proliferation of more modern Free/Libre OSS licenses. Unfortunately, now, a vast majority of the MUDsphere inherits that noncommercial license and is thus legally incompatable with most current free software projects. -- { IRL(Jeremy_Stanley); WWW(http://fungi.yuggoth.org/); PGP(43495829); WHOIS(STANL3-ARIN); SMTP(fu...@yuggoth.org); FINGER(fu...@yuggoth.org); MUD(kin...@katarsis.mudpy.org:6669); IRC(fu...@irc.yuggoth.org#ccl); } -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120126162705.gb...@yuggoth.org
