On Fri, 11 Oct 2024 15:06:15 +0200 Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 07:40:09AM +0200, Michael Stehmann wrote: > > Please do not develop new Free Software lincences. > > > > We still have more than 140. > > > > We need perhaps 3 to 5. > > > > Compliance checks are difficult enough now! > > > > So please do not develop new Free Software lincences! > > This. Absolutely. > > Please do not develop new Free Software lincences.
Indeed. Dear Giuseppe, please do everything in your power to avoid inventing a new license! If you want to release software under copyleft terms, please, please, please use the GNU GPL license. If you prefer to release software under non-copyleft permissive terms, please use the [Expat] license. [Expat]: <https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:Expat> The circumstances where you really need some other license are very uncommon. Even more exceptional are the circumstances where you really have no better options than writing your own custom license... You'll have to present a really solid case to persuade most debian-legal regulars that a new custom license is the best way forward. To conclude: we need more Free Software, more Free Software developers/maintainers, more Debian contributors, more time to devote to Free Software, but, no, we definitely do _not_ need more Free Software licenses! -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/ There's not a second to spare! To the laboratory! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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