[cc-community] Net Band "Packet-In" releases CC BY-SA licensed album
Terry Hancock
hancock at anansispaceworks.com
Wed Mar 19 15:00:56 EDT 2008
Michael David Crawford wrote:
>> Strictly speaking, we don't have a
>> legal "source code requirement" with the By-SA license, but I wanted the
>> project to store source code for reasons of both principle and practice.
>
> I would like to have a license variant that requires source code (for
> whatever definition of source code we can come up with.) If there were
> such a license, that's what I would choose for my own work.
While it's a nice idea, it would be artistically limiting, just as it is
with graphics. There are many situations in which you don't really want
to bother with tracking all of the intermediate steps used in creating a
work, and a legal source code requirement would impose that kind of
record-keeping.
I think it would be better for artistic projects to take a norm-based
approach to source code. Along the lines of "legally our project
materials are By-SA, which means we have no strict legal source code
requirement, but contributions to our project must contain 'source'
conforming to project norms in order to be accepted".
That way you're not constraining spin-off projects, but you're giving
more value to contributions with source.
That was the approach I was planning on taking (if and when I ever
really resurrect this project).
Cheers,
Terry
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Terry Hancock (hancock at AnansiSpaceworks.com)
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com
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