The current proliferation of incompatible copyleft licenses contradicts the old “One-size fits for all” idea that it is good for the community if people use a single copyleft license (meaning the GPL in the case of software). Mixing multiple components in a combined work becomes increasingly difficult, due to the lack of interoperability provisions making possible the distribution of such combined work as a whole.
Based on a concrete example (a European Member State requesting the distribution under European Union Public Licence – EUPL) I highlighted this issue and possible solution http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/2010/03/05/guest-post-2010-threats-to-copyleft/ .
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The current proliferation of incompatible copyleft licenses contradicts the old “One-size fits for all” idea that it is good for the community if people use a single copyleft license (meaning the GPL in the case of software). Mixing multiple components in a combined work becomes increasingly difficult, due to the lack of interoperability provisions making possible the distribution of such combined work as a whole.
Based on a concrete example (a European Member State requesting the distribution under European Union Public Licence – EUPL) I highlighted this issue and possible solution http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/2010/03/05/guest-post-2010-threats-to-copyleft/ .