"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.
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.