[cc-licenses] choosing a new license at freesound, please help
Bram @ Freesound
freesound at iua.upf.edu
Thu Oct 26 03:57:38 EDT 2006
Hello Everyone,
so, ok, I understand some of the (good) reasons to be against
Attribution, and even more reasons to be against
Attribution-NonCommercial. But, pandora's box is open, and the 822
people (and rising) who have submitted to freesound will want to
*choose* a new license for their currently Sampling+ released content,
and new people will need to be able to choose at least between.
I would like to support PD, BY and BY-NC...
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It would be great if you guys could come up with a list of single-phrase
sentences which would help the 'modal' user understand the bad points
and good points of PD, BY and BY-NC.
Afterwards I will present the user of freesound with a simple list of
choices, and list the bad/good points of each license next to it, with a
nice monkey-proof "degree of freedom" sticker going from pd => 'very
free' to by-nc => 'very restrictive'. ;-)
I prefer simpleness to completeness. I liked some of the anti-nc
examples like "If you were a font-creator, would you want to be able to
decide what's written with your font?". Examples like this are easy to
understand by the modal user...
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It will be impossible to please everyone: I think letting people choose
from *all* CC licenses is *way* too hard for "them". The only thing I
can do is offer all good/bad points and let the user choose. Hopefully,
given enough reasons users will select public domain.
cheers,
- bram
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