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If I'm reading this right, and I'd need more information on the references used to make the judgments, then a MIT License with a definitive statement on patents (positive or negative) would be a fantastic copyleft license that is:

* Easy for nonlegally minded people to read

* Legally obvious with little room for interpretation

* Easy to be incorporated into larger projects




MIT is not copyleft. It's one of the most permissive licenses out there.


I think you mean "copyright license", not "copyleft license". Consider the Copyfree Open Innovation License (COIL): http://coil.apotheon.org/.


I've been a fan of ISC over MIT... but yeah, imho that would be a nice license for code that's meant to be embedded.


Anytime I hear of MIT and Patents I think of the MS-PL:

https://opensource.org/licenses/MS-PL

Not sure how "easy" it is to read, I think it's fine? I'm no lawyer, just another developer.


Maybe you meant MPL2? IMHO it gets the perfect balance between "share your changes" and "anyone can use this, even in a commercial product".

But it doesn't have any language about patents.




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