[cc-community] The Question of Manufacturing Copyleft

Terry Hancock hancock at anansispaceworks.com
Thu Nov 1 17:18:13 EST 2007


Greg London wrote:
> If you just want to make sure derivatives are made available,
> you'd just have to stipulate that derivatives, even derivatives
> that are not distributed

Wait! That would be legit under a copyright license, wouldn't it? It
just violates the FSD.

How about this ... the license could simply make this requirement --
take boilerplate from one of the "OSD approved"/"non-free talk-back"
licenses.

THEN, it could EXEMPT anyone from that requirement who meets the other
parts of the copyleft requirements.

That way, if the user simply follows copyleft the way we intend, they
don't have to worry about it, but they can always opt to just publish
the information in a place the community can get to it. I suspect
different users would have different opinions about which is easier. But
it precludes our problem case, because either way, the modified and
distributed-by-manufacturing design can't get sequestered. Which is the
whole point of the copyleft.

Am I making sense here?

Cheers,
Terry

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Terry Hancock (hancock at AnansiSpaceworks.com)
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com



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