[cc-community] to build the commons

Bogdan Bivolaru bogdan.bivolaru at gmail.com
Mon Oct 27 16:06:23 EDT 2008


Sorry, I'm not a native English speaker. Does this mean that you advocate
for a copyleft-centered campaign?

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Fred Benenson <fred.benenson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Indeed, this is a bit off topic, but I just did this and switched my
> > licenses from BY-SA to vanilla BY. I wrote in depth on why I did this
> here:
> >
> > http://fredbenenson.com/blog/2008/10/22/moving-on-from-copyleft/
>
> Any license requires explaining, any license will be ignored,
> derivation is as difficult as you wish to declare it to be, and
> freedom for photographs is important. Ask anyone who cannot track down
> their wedding photographer after thirty years.
>
> Calling a copyleft license "share alike" confuses people. Copyleft
> exists to protect the ability to use the work freely. In the case of
> BY-SA it exists to protect free speech. It doesn't exist to create a
> gift economy (although that is a secondary effect of it).  And BY
> isn't "more free" than BY-SA when viewed from the position of rights
> rather than simplistic economics.
>
> To comment on two specific points:
>
> "Some people believe that copylefted material should not place an
> undue burden on mainstream press when using photos"
>
> Media corporations should not have any privilege above public interest
> or fair use defenses in using copylefted work. Ensuring that
> individuals are not free to answer the speech of media corporations
> isn't something that we should be trying to support.
>
> "Google, for example, chose the permissive Apache license (basically
> the software equivalent to CC's Attribution license) for their Android
> platform because it not only allows the codebase to be open source /
> free software, but because it encourages other companies to adopt it
> without further complications to their work flow and software stacks."
>
> Privileging software producing corporations in this way will be a
> great comfort to the users of Android and its derivatives when they
> cannot fix the software on their handsets or get hold of proprietary
> source code that the Apache license allows to be kept private.
>
> Popularity is not the same as success.
>
> - Rob.
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