On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 at 23:02 Giacomo <giac...@tesio.it> wrote:
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> So basically that definition is there to prevent discrimination against
> any group or minority or even against people affected by genetic issues
> and so on.
>
Why not just say 'people'?
To my mind the biggest problem with this license is that by trying to be
precise you're just introducing additional ambiguities. But this doesn't
make things better --- in fact the converse; I can read a sentence and
think I know what it means, but in fact don't because you've redefined the
term.
Example: you redefine 'Human' to have a non-standard meaning. But then you
never refer to the word 'Human' ever again; instead you refer to 'human'.
In other cases where you redefine a word you use the capitalised form,
which makes it clear that you're referring to the redefined form. So when
you say 'human', do you mean your redefined 'Human' or the conventional
term?
(And remember that the license text needs to stand up on its own --- you
won't be around to explain it to me!)
('Use' is even worse. As far as I can tell, from your definition *looking
at a floppy disk* containing a copy of your software counts as Use. But
it's not clear whether a User is someone who Uses the software or not.)
After having read this several times, I still can't figure out what your
actual intent is. What makes this different from other copyleft licenses?
Do you *really *need your own license?
Remember that custom licenses cost serious money to work with: if I'm an
organisation who wants to use your software, I need to book actual lawyer
time to get an analysis done, and that's *before* we know whether it's
compatible with our existing code. It's so much easier to just use someone
else's software instead!
If you *do*, and of course it's your choice to do so, I would urge you to
write down, in one simple sentence, what you actually want to achieve, why
existing licenses don't do this, and then try to modify an existing license
to do what you want, rather than starting from scratch. It'd be much easier
to understand and less ambiguous.
