i still find this whole 'open sauce' licence formats a big pile of drivel.
Wanna make something really 'open'? release it without any copyrights.
make it 'public domain'.
anyone can do what he wants with it. in the early days of the internet that was what people did. Stuff was released as public domain. No need for complicated legalese.
people were nice enough to automatically attribute a design to the original owner or put 'based on' in the files.
Like it or not, copyright law still applied. Maybe some people liked to pretend it didn't, but not everyone did, which is why we have the MIT and BSD-style licenses.
Besides, releasing something into the public domain isn't straight forward or easy, which is why Creative Commons put the effort into coming up with the
CC0 license.
Something that I don't understand though, if people releasing stuff they've written under whatever open source license they choose is "drivel," what is it when someone else tells them what they should have done instead? You know, like you seem fond of doing?
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