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"New Copyleft License" released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the yet-another-license-to-deal-with dept.

Stephen Williams writes "LinuxToday reports that Bowerbird Computing have released a new open source license called the New Copyleft License. Seems to be aimed at people who want to sell their free software, rather than charge for support." At the rate these licenses are proliferating, soon there will be one license for every app. Does anyone besides me think this is getting crazy?

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  1. About time for a modular license? by Gid1 · · Score: 4

    How about a web site which gives you a tick-box based license generator:

    * You'd select what you want to limit/allow

    * It'd read it back to you in
    a) Formal license form (text file)
    b) English, with warnings (eg. "You're forcing people to release their own source code here")
    c) A Geek-code style shorthand

    Then, any savvy user could take one glance at the Geek code and understand the restrictions.

    "This software is licensed according to the Open Source Modular License (URL here) with the following stipulations to be interpreted as described by the license:

    FREE++ SRC- DIST+ COPY+++ ..."

    Comments?