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Creative Commons Metamorphosis
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| David Palmer 2004-08-19, 2:50 am |
| There's a new style of licence happening at Creative Commons.
It is typified by the policy of attempting to meld closed and open
source, particularly in relation to software.
Is this where this project was heading all along?
This same proposition is one that has been previously touted by such
entities as Microsoft.
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/4368
Since when have the products of Open Source been unavailable to the
commercial sphere anyway?
Ventures of this nature have the potential to cloud the middle ground,
and compromise the legal status of standards such as the GPL. This may
well be the strategy involved.
Regards,
David.
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| Francesco P. Lovergine 2004-08-19, 2:50 am |
| On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:51:56PM +0800, David Palmer wrote:
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> Since when have the products of Open Source been unavailable to the
> commercial sphere anyway?
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If you mean unavailable to commercial products with closed licenses,
I say since ages. GPL released software _cannot_ be merged in such
products. There are a few other free-type licenses which are
compatible instead (e.g. BSD-like, old, new and variants).
Those ones are the licenses MS likes, for obviuous reasons: it's free beer.
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| Colin Watson 2004-08-19, 2:50 am |
| On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:51:56PM +0800, David Palmer wrote:
> There's a new style of licence happening at Creative Commons.
> It is typified by the policy of attempting to meld closed and open
> source, particularly in relation to software.
> Is this where this project was heading all along?
> This same proposition is one that has been previously touted by such
> entities as Microsoft.
What does this have to do with debian-devel?
debian-devel mailing list
Development of Debian
Discussion about technical development topics.
Take it to debian-legal or something.
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| Andrew Suffield 2004-08-19, 5:58 pm |
| On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 09:29:43AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:51:56PM +0800, David Palmer wrote:
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> What does this have to do with debian-devel?
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> debian-devel mailing list
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> Development of Debian
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> Discussion about technical development topics.
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> Take it to debian-legal or something.
Then people complain about how licenses are only being discussed on
-legal.
(No, I can't figure it out either).
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| Branden Robinson 2004-08-23, 2:51 am |
| On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 06:00:17PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 09:29:43AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
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> Then people complain about how licenses are only being discussed on
> -legal.
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> (No, I can't figure it out either).
The point is to complain about -legal, not make it better. Opinions about
licensing are best achieved in an environment as free of relevant knowledge
as possible. That way, one can declare how unreasonable the people on
-legal are without troubling one's conscience.
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