I posted this question to the contact form at opensource.org, which sent me an automated response suggesting (among other things) posting the question to this list, which I thought was a good idea.
I like copyleft licences preventing derivative works from being re-monopolized, but every copyleft licence I've seen is quite long. Is there a really short copyleft licence, comparable in length to, say, the ISC licence? It may be hard to write a copyleft licence quite that short, but I'm sure someone can do better than what I've seen so far. What's the shortest copyleft licence people on this list know of? It doesn't have to be specifically a software licence; it could be one designed for free cultural works in general. I think the shortest copyleft licence I've seen so far (judging it against the others by glancing at the text in a browser) is the Open Publication Licence [1], which a more careful (automated) word-count measures at nearly 800 words. [1] http://opencontent.org/openpub/ Tim <>< _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
