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Anarchist Anti License

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The Anarchist Anti License (AAL) is the idea of a license that allows people to copy/modify content but be not able to use the law to enforce the "rights" given by that license.

The anti licenses should:

  • be short (KeepItSimple - keep it simple)
    • this license should be made of one paragraph
  • be understandable
    • the license should be translated in any language

Problems with common licenses

  • Licenses like those of [1] creativecommons.org or Copyleft licenses (GPL,GFDL - see http://gnu.org) give authors rights that they can enforce by the law. If we as anarchists reject the law we should not use licenses that allow such enforcement.

First Draft

This work is licensed under the Anarchist Anti License (version 1): You are free to copy, modify and copy modified versions of the linked work. Nobody should take any of these rights as granted and should not try to enforce a restriction of the use, modification, or redistribution of the work. The distributor may stay anonymous. The original version of the license can be found at http://eng.anarchopedia.org/index.php/Anarchist_Anti_License


Drawbacks of such a license

  • it is not wide spread
  • we can not just copy Wikipedia content and start to work unless we keep the licenses of such articles, if not we have to start from scratch (maybe this is better anyway?)