>Make the copyright stuff so hard no one will ever bother trying to take over a project. Also means if the license ever loses a legal case then the project wil

>Make the copyright stuff so hard no one will ever bother trying to take over a project. Also means if the license ever loses a legal case then the project will always be susceptible to that flaw since it cannot be corrected. Think of a license as code. It currently works, but tomorrow you may find a serious bug, or, in the case of law, laws change outside the project, making a serious bug. Now you cannot ever fix it. And, in common cases, it protects the project from contributors wishing to remove their contribution later, breaking the project. Linus could get a brain tumor and decide to revoke his contributions to the Linux kernel. Or his heirs could do it, since by law they get his copyrights, including all the code he ever contributed. Guess what that would do. Or any contributor to Linux can do it. 10,000 legal minefields is not a good way to run a project.