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  • From: Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>
  • To: cc-uk AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Cc-uk] New CC-UK license draft
  • Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 20:57:55 +0100

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.





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