Discussion of all things related to Public Domain

[Jay Sulzberger <jays AT panix.com>]

On Thu, 5 May 2005, Lucas Gonze wrote:

> On Thu, 5 May 2005, Lucas Gonze wrote:
> > This is a deliberately loose formulation, much looser than the GPL was.
> > That is on purpose.  Culture is a different domain and set of problems
> > than code.  It has to be attacked from a different angle.  The GPL was
> > precise both because it had to be and because code allows that kind of
> > precision.  With things like tunes and punchlines you don't need it and
> > can't have it.  What has done a lot of good is to make music which is
> > incrementally more open incrementally more popular.
>
> A footnote -- it might be productive to forget about the listeners 
> completely and think only about freedom of musicians, though that's not an 
> angle that I or anybody that I know of has developed.  If we did do that, 
> then the way that the GPL protects the rights of makers would be directly 
> applicable.
>
> - Lucas Gonze

This is exactly the line of NYFU:

We are not consumers.  We are makers and citizens, and we own our
computers, and we use our Net.

And we intend to keep our computers and our Net and our rights of free
communication and free cooperation.

http://www.nyfairuse.org
http://windowsrefund.info

oo--JS.