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[Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>]

On 13 Jul 2004, at 17:18, Andres Guadamuz wrote:

> -  I personally don't see the point of changing the UK licence too  
> much and call
> it a CC licence, as if one disagrees with the general idea and  
> structure of
> the existing licence, why not change it into an incompatible licence  
> and
> distribute it under another name?

Yes, although again reducing a global market to a national one isn't a  
good idea. A group of French researchers have just released a GPL-style  
license specifically tailored to avoid problems in French law for the  
GPL's provisions:  
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/12/ 
2318236&mode=thread&tid=117&tid=99
I won't be using their code if I have to use that license and it's not  
GPL-compatible, sadly it isn't worth it. :-(

> - Do we really want a CC licence monoculture? Just a thought.

Yes because it's a pain to have content (or code) on the other side of  
a license ghetto wall. Look at what's happened with "Open Source"  
licenses, there's dozens, all incompatible with some of the others. The  
idea is to share, freedom of movement is an important Freedom. :-)

Personally I think even the CC variants are too much difference,  
everything should be GPL-equivalent (CC-SA),  although I know that's  
not going to be a universally popular position. :-)

Microsoft et al manage to license their software to their own  
satisfaction around the world. I don't see why Open Content shouldn't  
manage similarly...

- Rob.