Re: Copyleft variation of MIT license

[Gervase Markham <gerv@mozilla.org>]

Suraj N. Kurapati wrote:
> I had been using the GPL for some years without fully understanding
> its implications. Recently, I spent some time thinking about my
> ethical beliefs regarding free software and discovered that I prefer
> something like Creative Commons' by-sa (attribution + share-alike)
> license. That is, I want the source code of my software to remain
> free, like a free bird that cannot be caged.

What important difference do you see between the GPL and BY-SA? They 
were designed to work in similar ways.

> I looked at other by-sa licenses (particularly MPL, CDDL, CPL, EPL)
> but found them to be lengthy. Instead, I admire the MIT license for
> its short length and comprehensibility, and wish to make a copyleft
> variation of the MIT license[2].

This is a really bad idea, for reasons already explained by people more 
coherent than me. Please don't do it.

This might also be of interest:
http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/gpl-compatible.html

Gerv