Fontana: What open source licensing could learn from Creative Commons (Opensource.com) [LWN.net]

Fontana: What open source licensing could learn from Creative Commons (Opensource.com)

Posted Dec 19, 2012 19:21 UTC (Wed) by gerv (guest, #3376)
In reply to: Fontana: What open source licensing could learn from Creative Commons (Opensource.com) by rfontana
Parent article: Fontana: What open source licensing could learn from Creative Commons (Opensource.com)

I think that the improved license compatibility has come about organically as different orgs update their licenses and bring them into the 21st century. To my mind, there's now an upwardly-compatible continuum of best-of-type licenses:

   Apache 2.0 (permissive)
-> MPL 2.0 (weak copyleft)
-> LGPL 3.0 (medium strength copyleft)
-> GPL 3.0 (strong copyleft)
-> AGPL 3.0 (network service copyleft)

Apart from the fact that there's no central committee, that seems to me to be the suite you are looking for.

Gerv