[ANSOL-geral]Explaining the GPL to Non-Lawyers?

[Lopo de Almeida]

Explaining the GPL to Non-Lawyers?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/03/1654235

    [0]peddrenth asks: "Software licenses are, we keep saying, difficult to
    read. The public clicks OK without reading, either implicitly trusting
    or mistrusting us the software authors. There have been calls recently
    for companies to clean-up the license, to bullet, section, and colour
    their licenses, to remove THE UPPERCASE and to draw charts and graphs
    to explain the license. Anyone who's had to read a 3-page document in a
    3"x1" textbox knows how useful this would be. The GPL is one of the
    most important licenses in the world, and appears on thousands of
    products. Everything from windows programs to operating systems to
    people's artwork requires understanding and acceptance of the [1]GNU
    GPL. Should we, the free software community, take the first step in
    this effort, and show the world what an easy-to-read license looks
    like? Would it be useful if long textual software licenses stood out
    like a sore thumb amongst the cool, pretty, and clear free licenses?"
    Many may think the GPL Preamble to be clear enough, and this may be
    true. However there are a lot of people out there that would like to
    read the entire license so that they know exactly what they may be
    getting into, before they agree to it. This usually implies being able
    reading the actual license, and not just the preamble. 
Links
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