>> Some a*hole can't just invent copyleft and expect it to have the same
>> legal weight as copyright.

A lot of the license agreements and similar that people "agree" to  
every day are not actually legal, and yet still carry weight in that  
they carefully spell out  how they want the various parties to  
behave.  The primary purpose of a legal agreement is to get  
understanding and AGREEMENT between the parties involved, not to make  
sure you can collect damages and similar if someone breaks the  
agreement.

I think GPL and similar are reaching a point where they do this  
pretty well.   I think a lot of people just jumped on the wagon  
without paying much attention, and I'm not terribly happy about the  
period during which the meaning of GPL was more obscured, but that's  
coming to an end.

Of course, it's still a real pain to apply to the embedded space, but  
that's a separate issue...

BillW

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