[Foundation-l] Licensing for Dummies

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Sun Dec 2 20:20:59 UTC 2007


Philippe Beaudette wrote:
> OK, I accept that I need to get copies of the various licenses and crash with them and dig into them.  Gottit.  It's on my "to-do" list for next week.
>
> Is there a good common reference that I can use in addition to that?  I'm thinking there must be someone who's already done this and has harnessed the (substantial) knowledge of this list and others to put them into a format that doesn't make my eyes glaze.  Does anyone have a reference that gives overviews of the various differences b/w the CC licenses, the GFDL, etc?
Please excuse my cynicism on this. :-)

It's a bit like expecting the copyright fairy to overfly Washington and 
sprinkle commonsense fairy dust.  Those guys would be more likely to 
scramble the jets first.

Ec



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