[cc-community] 10k great Free songs (was Re: Rcrd Lbl to offer CC and Free as in Beer Music)
drew Roberts
zotz at 100jamz.com
Tue Nov 20 18:09:14 EST 2007
On Tuesday 20 November 2007 16:21:30 Lucas Gonze wrote:
> > > 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.
I don't run into him at all.
> 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.
Can you point to examples specifically. I may have always misread what I saw,
or I may just be remembering things incorrectly.
Are you sure that is the point, or is it more, that he believes it applies to
one and hasn't taken thetime to think throught if it may apply to the other
since it is not his area? And perhaps it doesn't apply for the same reasons?
It could just be that old programmer hubris from that famous list...
Not getting how art works...???
In any case, this really has not been his area historically. Has it?
>
> -Lucas
all the best,
drew
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