[cc-community] FYI: comment by Eric S Raymond on CC

Burobjorn burobjorn at gmail.com
Wed Feb 13 03:01:18 EST 2008


"Raymond: A noble effort. I think there's a serious flaw in some of 
their licenses, though, in that they rely on being able to make a 
bright-line distinction between "commercial activity" and 
"non-commercial activity." In fact, at least under U.S. and British law, 
there's no reliable way to do that; you run into edge cases like 
fundraising activity by non-profit organizations. That's why the OSD 
doesn't depend on making any such distinction -- it's too easy to end up 
with either exploitable loopholes for non-cooperating commercial 
entities or nasty legal risks for nonprofits."

See for the article about 10 years of the Open Source Institute (OSI):
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2008/02/12/a-look-back-at-10-years-of-osi.html

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met vriendelijke groet,
Bjorn Wijers

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