Re: [PLUG] software licenses

[Nelson Pavlosky <nelson@eff.org>]

gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

> The creative commons folks have a lot to say about this, provide a
> lot more flexibility, and actively help make it easy to clearly
> label things. Rerring people to http://www.creativecommons.org/
> leaves them far more options than referring them to the GPL (which
> is pretty restrictive on future users of the code and even on the
> owner of the copyright).
Creative Commons has a nice little explanation of the GPL and the LGPL:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/LGPL/2.1/

Creative Commons doesn't recommend any of their other licenses for use 
with software.

~Nelson~

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