[cc-community] Net Band "Packet-In" releases CC BY-SA licensed album
drew Roberts
zotz at 100jamz.com
Wed Mar 19 15:31:02 EDT 2008
On Wednesday 19 March 2008 15:00, Terry Hancock wrote:
> 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).
That is along the lines of what I have been thinking myself. Don't require it
in the license. Encourage it by making it the community norm and giving
respect to those that play that way.
If I can ever figure a way to require it in a license in a way that would not
have such drawbacks, I may reconsider.
>
> Cheers,
> Terry
all the best,
drew
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