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  • From: Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Proposal for a new kind of CC license -
  • Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 13:05:10 +0100

On Wednesday, July 20, 2005, at 12:33PM, drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com>
wrote:

>While I agree wit you thoughts, I think you miss what he meant by match. If
>I
>understand correctly, I think he is referring to a sweet-spot type match
>where the "properties" of software and the "provisions" of the license work
>together to generate success.

Ah, I see what you mean. Yes, I did misunderstand that. My apologies.

>So, he thinks, that, for instance, while BY-SA
>may have similar "provisions" to the GPL, text does not have similar enough
>"properties" to software for the "sweet-spot" match to occur. (Please
>correct
>where I have this wrong. Sometimes a third party can spot talking at cross
>purposes...)

Code is text, though. I don't understand what properties literary or academic
text is meant to have that makes copyleft inadequate for it.

If we look at Lessig's "Free Culture", for example, the eBooks and
audio-books were generated because of the license, a noncommercial (hiss! :-)
) attributon-only (hiss! :-) ) license. A medium-specific license wouldn't
have allowed this.

- Rob.




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