Giacomo Tesio <giac...@tesio.it> writes: > Hi, I've just published a new version of the Hacking License that > receipts some of the objections proposed on debian-legal and on > copyleft-next. > […] > I would really appreciate further feedbacks.
Please be aware that this is *not* a forum particularly suited for forming a new copyright license text. We are volunteers specifically focussed on discussing *works for submission to Debian*. I acknowledge that you started discussions in the context of a specific software work, and that is appreciated. However, you are strongly seeking feedback not on the work of software, but on your new license text. That's not a good use of this forum, and this forum is not especially likely to be fruitful for that goal. You have already been told gently that *for the purpose of Debian* we strongly discourage works have new license texts. Trying to come up with a new set of license conditions from scratch, without using legal experts paid to work on the many drafts you'll need to make such a text robust, is a huge waste of many people's time now and in the future. For the sake of anyone who would receive that software, I implore you to not do it, and also to not be under any illusion that this discussion forum is a suitable way to meet that goal. It is not. If you want to release a work of software compatible with Debian, please do everyone – yourself included – a huge favour and choose an existing, well-understood, known-by-copyright-experts-to-be-effective free license already used for many existing software works. -- \ “All my life I've had one dream: to achieve my many goals.” | `\ —Homer, _The Simpsons_ | _o__) | Ben Finney
