Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Greg London" <greglondon.1 AT gmail.com>]

On 4/26/07, Joachim Durchholz <jo AT durchholz.org> wrote:

Greg London schrieb:
Let me look how they phrased it - did they mean "Freedom" or "freedoms"
(aka "rights")?

I never really bought the idea that having the right to use the creative
works of others is related to Freedom (with a capital F) in any way, so
I have to admit I didn't read that section very carefully.
Checking...
It clearly says "freedoms". I.e. rights. No misrepresentation here.

 

 

You do realize that there needs be a distinction between

Free as in speech, versus,  free as in beer.

Right?

 

Because "F"ree is talking about community versus proprietary,

while "f"ree is talking about zero price.

 

However, and this reflects a confusion of vocabulary,

there is no distinction between "F"reedom versus "f"reedom.

 

They both are talking about Freedom, neither one is talking

about price. Upper and lower case is irrelevant when discussing

the word "freedom".

 

That folks have made a distinction where none exists indicates

that they don't understand the vocabulary they've hijacked.

 

AND, more importantly, no one can reasonably expect that some

newbie to the arena of CC and copyright and licensing is going

to read the first line at the top of the front page of the website

and know that upper or lowercase on the word freedom SHOULD

mean anything different.

 

Greg