Zenaan Harkness wrote: <snip> > Can we generalize and say something like any license which attempts to > restrict beyond the lowest common denominator of copyright laws that > exist today? > > Or is the Autocrat Test simply a jurisdictional test?
Neither. What I think it's about is precisely this from the GPL preamble: "The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it." And from GPL 0: "Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope." A license should be granting permission, not taking away rights. Period. -- There are none so blind as those who will not see.
