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Design Science License extends Copyleft from software to other copyrigh

Hello, I'm a rarely posting, mostly lurking list reader over 
the many years and my apologies if something on this facet 
of Copyleft extension has previously been posted and I missed it. 

I saw no note of Stutz's publishing his first book using his DSL 
licensing scheme here and I thought Stutz's Design Science License 
(DSL) extension of copyleft from software to books & other 
copyrightables might be of interest--even if Linux is not.  
The book's release is August 2001, but the author already has 
it available in HTML on his website.  A blurb & links follow.
--Elizabeth Fraser    ehf@[redacted]

Generalized `Copyleft' License brings Open Source 
beyond software Michael Stutz, the author of the 
forthcoming book, THE LINUX COOKBOOK No Starch Press, 
has developed a copyleft-style license that brings 
the enormous benefits of Open Source software to books 
and other works. The author of the license says "The 
future is in openness and freedom, and in every individual's 
right to cut and paste and copy and modify any work they like, 
for any reason they like."
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-07-26-001-20-PS

Or check out the blurb on "The Linux Cookbook" by following
the books link at: http://www.nostarch.com/
Stutz's site is: http://www.dsl.org/m/