[cc-community] Orlowski vs. liblicense
melanie dulong de rosnay
melanie.dulong-de-rosnay at cersa.org
Tue Aug 21 04:41:20 EDT 2007
Hi Alek and everyone,
Applicable law should not only be seen as a hurdle to achieve useful
purposes for the society.
CC licenses are also enabling tools which are circumventing, some
would say hacking, some of applicable law restrictions.
It should be possible to work on a solution to solve children
"incapacity" in some jurisdictions to engage in licensing and
publishing, something such as (probably not the best idea ;-) a step
through parents or a delegation of this authority to the teacher
before upload.
Parents should be delighted to check out their kids works. Some
parents from the North are already checking kids grades online, and
parents from the South could also take advantage of OLPC.
What do you think?
Looking forward to reading (or re-reading) Bodo's letter and related
threats,
Melanie
Le 21 août 07 à 10:04, Alek Tarkowski a écrit :
> Hello everyone,
>
> I agree with Rob that Orlowski's objection, taken away the style and
> argumentation, deserves to be answered. I think this issue returns
> again
> and again: that people might not know what they're doing when they use
> the license.
>
> Jon wrote that the liblicense will default to "no free license", but
> there are other projects that offer a CC license as a licensing
> default.
> Personally I find this controversial - as it creates a body of freed
> content, but not a pool of "free minds", which ultimately are
> important.
>
> So if we don't want that, the question becomes what can we do to make
> sure people understand what they are doing when licensing? For
> example,
> I think many of the explanations / warnings that are now placed in the
> faq file should be inserted, more centrally, into the licensing
> process,
> as some form of interstitials?
>
> Regarding the issue of licensing by children, Bodo Balazs once wrote a
> great letter on this issue, I think at the time when the idea of a "cc
> children" license was being discussed (maybe a year or two ago?). I
> wish
> I knew how to find a link to it in the archives, but the general gist
> was: "it's a bad idea". Yet we live in a society in which people that
> are underage, by virtue of being creators are forced to be
> licensors as
> well. So I think that we should think well before spearheading this
> trend - even in the benign form of teaching OLPC laptop users about
> free
> licensing.
>
> alek.
>
>
>
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