[Foundation-l] RfC: License update proposal

geni geniice at gmail.com
Thu Jan 22 22:35:54 UTC 2009


2009/1/22 Mike Godwin <mgodwin at wikimedia.org>:
> Without defending the particulars of CC's phrasing, which I think has
> its problems but which I also think is better than you allow for here,
> I'll offer my opinion that a license a license without any vagueness
> or debatable terms is such a rarity that I don't think I've ever seen
> one.
>
>
> --Mike

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL is not far off.

In any case vagueness has it's uses since any attempt to try and
define everything will tend to  result in the license either failing
or behaving in a very unhelpful manner under certain conditions.

-- 
geni



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