[cc-community] Benjamin Mako Hill on Creative Commons

Benj. Mako Hill mako at atdot.cc
Tue Aug 2 09:15:10 EDT 2005


<quote who="Rob Myers" date="Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 09:04:50PM +0100">
> > Copyleft licenses are actually the most restrictive
> > of teh FLOSS licenses.
> 
> No, they are the most freeing. That is, they ensure your ongoing  
> freedom. The BSD licenses do not do this.

*Please*, lets not have this discussion here again. This horse has
been beaten to death many many times.

> > On the other hand, some attribution requirements
> > are considered to be not-free. Whether "attribution"
> > as a whole is free or not is subject for debate.
> > I don't know if the CC-BY license has been certified
> > by the open source initiative as meeting the open source
> > definition.
> 
> IIRC it has not. Debian certainly don't regard it as "free".

Debian realizes that it is supposed to be free and the intent is
good. It was only considered non-free due to some clumsiness in the
wording of the license. The issues are being addressed in talks
between Debian and folks from CC and I think both sides expect to have
something good to report in the near future.

Regards,
Mako

-- 
Benjamin Mako Hill
mako at atdot.cc
http://mako.cc/

Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so
far as society is free to use the results. --RMS
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