[cc-community] Open Hardware Licence
Rob Myers
rob at robmyers.org
Thu May 7 18:09:56 EDT 2009
Rolling two responses into one to avoid spamming the list too much...
Patrick Godeau wrote:
>
> Free licenses, specifically copyleft licenses, come with restrictions.
> For example, GPL restricts you from distributing a program without
> giving your source code modifications. This obligation is necessary to
> preserve the freedom of everyone to have access to the source code.
But copyleft limits only the restrictions you may impose.
Philosophically speaking, copyleft is an example of the absolute minimum
of coercion required to prevent further coercion.
The freedom that copyleft protects is to use software. Access to source
code may be a pre-requisite for this, but it is not an end in itself.
> The IANG license restricts you from dictating other people's work. This
> is to preserve the freedom of every contributor to have a say in her work.
>
> This does not mean that every contributor must agree with all other
> contributors on every little change. It only means that contributors who
> share a work should also share the control of this work.
The "freedom" to control use of a work is not freedom, it is control.
> IANG also addresses rights not covered by CC licenses, like the right to
> access the accounting of commercial distributions.
From the point of view of the freedom to use copyrighted works, that is
not a right, it is a privilege.
Economic reform is a separate issue from freedom of use/speech. It *is*
a very important issue, but a separate one.
> Le 07/05/2009 00:51, Mike Linksvayer a écrit :
>> Another minor but annoying thing is in the footer -- the license text
>> itself is apparently "copyleft" but only verbatim copying is allowed.
>
> Sure! Incidentally, this is the same for CC licenses, if you read
carefully:
> "8. e. [...] This License may not be modified without the mutual written
> agreement of the Licensor and You."
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
But the difference with the GPL and the CC licenses is that they do not
claim that their *text* is copyleft, if I understand Mike correctly.
- Rob.
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