Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Glenn Otis Brown <glenn AT creativecommons.org>]

On Feb 1, 2005, at 10:29 AM, Greg London wrote:

> See, you're all making it far too complicated.
> Here is the simple logical argument in 4 easy steps.
>
> (1) GPL asserts it is "free as in free speech, not free beer"
> (2) Free speech allows individuals to create proprietary works.
> (3) GNU-GPL does not allow proprietary works.

depends on what you mean by "proprietary." it certainly allows someone 
to own a copyright in some code, and to sell that code. that's 
certainly property, even if it is property that carries special 
freedoms and conditions. your lawn is no less "proprietary" for having 
a sidewalk (a public easement akin to a license) run through it.


> therefore
>
> (4) GNU-GPL is not free as in free speech.
>
> Unless someone can point to a logical fallacy in one of
> those four steps, the argument stands.
>
> for reference, logical fallacies are listed here:
> http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html
>
> Greg
>
>
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Glenn Otis Brown
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