On Thu, 08 Sep 2022 23:32:34 -0600 Sam Hartman wrote: [...] > That's certainly what the FSF would prefer you do, yes. > However, there are a few things to consider: > > 1) It's not clear that the FSF's copyright on the GPL allows you to > borrow text from it for your license. I believe it does not. > > 2) It will be harder to figure out how a license constructed as you > propose differs from the GPL and may be harder to analyze such a > license. > > Keep in mind that the FSF, authors of the FAQ you point to want to make > it hard to "fork" the GPL both because they would rather you simply pick > the GPL and because they want to discourage license proliferation. > There's nothing wrong with those goals; as an example Debian almost > certainly wants to discourage license proliferation too. > But those goals do create a certain bias in what the FSF recommends. I agree with what you say here. > > In either case, I think we're well beyond the scope of this list. Yes. :-) -- 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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