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  • From: Nelson Pavlosky <npavlos1 AT swarthmore.edu>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: keeping CC-SA free
  • Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 18:33:48 -0400

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Mike Linksvayer wrote:
| Greg London wrote:

|> alongside Microsoft because Copyleft gave
|> the code to everyone and it prohibited the
|> likes of Microsoft from taking it private,
|> extending it, and competing against the
|> original Linux.
|
| Apache has been far more successful
| <http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html> versus
| Microsoft. Apache is not copylefted.

Yeah, and then there's Keberos, to which Microsoft could apply the usual
~ "embrace, extend, eliminate" because it was BSD-licensed. I would
never contribute to a non-copylefted project, and if Creative Commons
didn't have a single true copyleft license among its excessive number of
licenses, that would be really pathetic, to put it bluntly.

| I think copyleft is cool, but it isn't the only licensing possibility
| for open stuff to compete against proprietary stuff.

Of course, but it's important that Creative Commons provide it as ONE
licensing possibility out of its many non-free licenses. A license that
lets people make my work less free than I intended it is not useful to
me. I want to be able to benefit from things built off of my work when
I release it under a gift license. If Creative Commons doesn't offer
that at all, I'll have to start looking somewhere else.

~Nelson~
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