Copyleft or Public Domain

Copyleft or Public Domain

Posted Oct 21, 2006 17:54 UTC (Sat) by anonymous21 (guest, #30106)
In reply to: On the dichotomy between the proposed GPLv3 and the way kernel-developers view the GPLv2. by Zack
Parent article: Linux: GPLv3, DRM, and Exceptions (KernelTrap.org)

I also like BSD/MIT licenses which do not use the coercion of copyright, and are quite close to Public Domain. If we had sensible copyright laws(1) I might even advocate (close to) Public Domain licenses.
Given that we dont have sensible copyright laws the best alternative is copyleft.
1) Misinterpreting Copyright by Richard Stallman

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