[cc-licenses] CC vs GPL: how to ensure compatibility and compliance

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Mon Oct 1 06:41:38 EDT 2007


On Sunday 30 September 2007 10:45 pm, Terry Hancock wrote:
> Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> > Of course.. then you run into cases where people have cc-nc-nd
> > licensed the
>
> [resources]
>
> > Even things like this are technically okay, they are violations of the
> > spirit of the license and the likely intentions of the licenses. As
> > such such actions should be avoided.. and may well be precluded by
> > future editions of the GPL should practices like that become
> > widespread.
>
> I disagree strongly.
>
> Many advocates of free software, including Richard Stallman, have
> expressed the opinion that the "ethical compulsion" to make software
> free is unique to computer programs (or perhaps more generally to
> "things of utilitarian rather than aesthetic value", as I would
> personally put it), and feel quite comfortable with the idea of
> conventional copyright-monopoly-based selling of aesthetic content.

I am not so sure about this Terry. In my reading, I have always come away with 
the impression that it is more like... I know this is so for code. That is my 
area. I haven't thought deeply enough about other areas to know if it so 
there so I will refrain from comment onthose other areas.

snip.

>
> Cheers,
> Terry

all the best,

drew



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