[cc-community] CC-BY content usable under GFDL

Greg London email at greglondon.com
Mon May 5 21:51:44 EDT 2008


> It seems to me that the only way that "dealing with the copyrhight
> holder"  is not part of the equation is if its realesed completely to
> the public domain.


But Public Domain Style Licenses (PDSL)  don't
protect the *community* near as much as
a good copyleft license does.

A good copyleft license ends up having the work behave
*as if* there were no copyright law at all, in spite
of the existence of copyright law. A good copyleft
license prevents anyone from using copyright laws from
making a proprietary fork and monopolizing it through
copyright law.

PDSL, in the presence of copyright law, doesn't
actually prevent proprietary forks from other folks.
All PDSL's do is say the author gives up all the
exclusive rights to monopolize the work. Other
people can still create proprietary forks.

Good copyleft prevents the author AND any third party
individual from monopolizing the work with copyright.
Good copyleft creates the legal circumstances where
cooperation among a community is generally the best
path to getting the work accomplished.


Look at how the Labyrinths are different between the two:
http://www.greglondon.com/libre/TheLibreLabyrinth.pdf

Public Domain Style License: page 48
GNU-GPL V3: page 41

The differences are further explored on page 53.

They are no where near the same.




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