Hello Ben, thanks for your answer. See inline:
Ben Finney wrote:
"Andres G. Aragoneses" aaragoneses@novell.com writes:
Hello there. Is there a similar discussion list as this one, but global?
That would make sense only if the specific jurisdictions affecting software freedom were global. Despite the ongoing efforts of the “intellectual property” cabal to “harmonise” jurisdictions world-wide on their vision of property, that remains not the case.
Good point.
However in my case I'm wondering if it makes more sense to first bring up the concepts of the license at a global level, and then later discuss details about jurisdictions differences. It's not difficult to understand, because it just requires some alterations to the current GPL license (I will provider a sort of a "diff").
My particular interest is to talk about a draft of a new license I want to propose (similar to the AGPL, in the sense that has only small variations, but important ones for the niche I'm thinking of).
Since the issues of a copyright license need to be discussed in terms of specific copyright jurisdictions, it seems best to bring it up in each one.
First, though, is the question of license proliferation. It's widely recognised to be a bad idea to make new licenses for free software, instead of choosing existing ones that have been examined over many years and are known to be relatively trouble-free.
I'm aware of the license proliferation problem, and mainly that's the reason why I'm here pushing this instead of encouraging some companies that I'm in contact with to create licenses on their own. I think it makes more sense for them to embrace a common license, and much better if it's blessed by the FSF, instead of each one adopting a very similar one.