On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 10:26:30PM +0100, Sam Liddicott wrote:
Perpetual copylleft sounds more noble than copyleft and this would
surely be an asset for the FSF, would it make it worth them diluting the
old meaning in order to get more coverage for the concept and thus also
more covereage and recognition for perpetual copyleft than they
currently have for "copyleft"? Sort of like having one floor our of a
popular city hotel instead of a motel in the country?
Is there any potential in this idea?
If you can sell it to the FSF, I think that's the best idea I've heard
so far. Certainly I would go for that, I would happily use the term
'copyleft' as a generic and I think it's the sort of term which the
media would latch onto, it makes a good sound-bite ("What we are doing
is 'copy-left'. It's like copyright but the other way round."). I'd
hope that the other FS licences would use it as well.