Yeah, its age is showing, truth to be told. That&#x27;s why we have now AGPL for network programs, and LGPL for libraries.<p>About the ambiguity - my feeling about it is that they (Stallman and the lawyers, I suppose) leaned towards the usual way these documents are done, to make the licence more general - which irks us, the programmers. For a lawyer, &quot;the code&quot; is a good enough term.<p>I agree with you on having a new copyleft licence - but I&#x27;m afraid is hard to get something even to match GPL, and worse - you can step in the same, or other subtle traps as the initial versions of the GPL did - that tivoization stuff was nasty as hell. If only some of the licenses would &quot;die&quot; eventually, but the process reminds me of this comic - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;927&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;927&#x2F;</a>