Concerns: CC-BY and Debian
Branko Collin
collin at xs4all.nl
Fri Mar 11 06:29:20 EST 2005
On 10 Mar 2005, at 18:41, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> There are also freedom-related issues. The CC-BY license is A LOT more
> free than the GNU FDL. Debian has major issues with it. Enough to
> merit a position statement:
>
> http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.xhtml
>
> Contrast this with the CC-BY, where Debian feels that it is "almost"
> free. They agree that the intent is obviously "free". And they are
> just concerned about some details of word choice.
Could you expand a little bit on this, especially WRT what you
consider to be "free" and "freedom"? I happen to agree with the FSF's
position, where freedom flows downstream. Debian's Position Statement
however seems to think that only authors should be free and have
freedom (granted, I only looked at the bit about DRM before I turned
away irritated).
Perhaps you should use another term, because the words "free" and
"freedom" may be too confusing. I do not think I have ever seen two
people agree on a definition of these words.
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branko collin
collin at xs4all.nl
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