[cc-community] 10k great Free songs (was Re: Rcrd Lbl to offer CC and Free as in Beer Music)

Lucas Gonze lucas.gonze at gmail.com
Tue Nov 20 16:21:30 EST 2007


> > This is the argument that RMS uses to explain why the GPL can't be
> > ported straight over to multimedia.
>
> Hashe ever made this argument inthis form. I only recall him limiting himself
> to his chosen field and stating that he has not worked out the variables for
> other fields.

One bit of public writing where I have seen this is in one of the
essays in the book "Free Software, Free Society."  I think I've seen
it somewhere else online as well.

If you run into Stallman much at all you learn that he is a stuck
record on pretty much every topic.  It's not hard to get him to
pontificate on how the difference between functional and expressive
works has a huge impact on permissive licensing.  The gist of it is
that he doesn't think permissive licensing makes sense for stuff aside
from programs except in the special case of factual works like
software manuals.

-Lucas


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