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
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