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  • From: "Brianna Laugher" <brianna.laugher AT gmail.com>
  • To: "Wikimedia Commons Discussion List" <commons-l AT lists.wikimedia.org>
  • Cc: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l AT lists.wikimedia.org>, Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] [Commons-l] Requirements for a strong copyleft license
  • Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 00:57:38 +1100

On 02/12/2007, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell AT gmail.com> wrote:

> If a visual artist doesn't want copyleft for images they should just
> use CC-BY (or better, 'PD').
>
> The purpose of copyleft is to help expand the pool of free content
> with a tit-for-tat mechanism. 'Weak copyleft' simply isn't
> interesting in terms of its ability to achieve this goal.

Is "weak copyleft" not comparable to the LGPL? LGPL appears to have a
place; why not "weak copyleft"?

> The question of "does anyone here want a weak copyleft license" is
> just the far more interesting one...
>
> I do not believe there is any point to having a copyleft license for
> media which isn't strong. Does anyone here disagree?

At the risk of being stoned... yeah.
I just don't consider an article that uses a photograph of mine as
illustration to be a a derivative of my work.
I don't want an article, blog or book author to have to license their
whole text under CC-BY-SA just because they use my image.
HOWEVER, I do want them to be obliged to make explicit the license of
my work, that is offer it to others under the same conditions. My
work, not theirs. That is how I think "weak copyleft" differs from
CC-BY or PD.

So "weak copyleft", if we are talking about the same thing, suits me well.

regards,
Brianna

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