On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:44:01 -0700 Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Some artists unhappy with the wording of the (L)GPL are looking for > > free art licenses, with or without copyleft. What would your > > recommendations for such licenses be? The BSD or Artistic licenses > > look fine for the latter case, but how about the former? > > I'd actually suggest the MIT license instead of the 1,2,4 clause BSD, > and would question why people haev a problem with the GPL; there's > really no reason not to distribute a copyleft work under the GPL if > you actually want the freedom protection that a copyleft license > gives.
Fully agreed. Actually, the two licenses you suggest are my favorite recommendations too: * the Expat (a.k.a. MIT) license http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt * the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.txt -- :-( This Universe is buggy! Where's the Creator's BTS? ;-) ...................................................................... Francesco Poli GnuPG Key ID = DD6DFCF4 Key fingerprint = C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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