Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab AT web.de>]

Am Freitag, 4. Mai 2012, 18:50:51 schrieb Francesco Poli:
> On Wed, 02 May 2012 13:58:09 +0200 Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > drew Roberts wrote:
> [...]
>
> > > If the only way my BY-SA photos get on the same CD with someone else's
> > > ARR photos and still another ARR text is by some computer program
> > > randomly picking stuff off of a large hard disk so as to try and
> > > minimize wasted space on the CD, fine. Mere aggregation. CD itself does
> > > not get a copyright / is not a work of copyright. If instead my photo
> > > ends up on that CD because someone picked it as being a supporting part
> > > or a representative part of that CD such that some creativity was used
> > > in selecting what went on that CD and that CD is a work deserving of a
> > > copyright of its own, I say that is not mere aggregation going on wrt
> > > that CD and let the copyleft provisions kick in such that all works of
> > > copyright contained on that CD must have a Free license.
> >
> > I agree. That is what I expect from the GPL.
>
> [...]
>
> > People who get a Debian CD want to get specific functionality. When
> > they do not have akregator as newsreader but RSS Owl, and they do not
> > know akregator, they might not even notice that.
>
> Wait, are you claiming that a Debian CD (or DVD) is not an
> "aggregate" (as defined in the GNU GPL v3)?

No, exactly the opposite. I try to find the compromise which allows debian CDs
while not allowing unfree books abusing free works to shackle people.

Best wishes,
Arne
--
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heißt politisch sein,
ohne es zu merken.
- Arne (http://draketo.de)

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