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by AussieWog93 1965 days ago
If you can't afford an international team of IP lawyers to actually enforce your rights, then your license really isn't anything more than a polite explanation of what people should and shouldn't do with your work.

Creative Commons and its variants excel in this regard - anyone acting in good faith knows exactly what your boundaries are and they're explained clearly on the website.

CERN's OHL, on the other hand, is a little bit more opaque and less well understood.