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David Gerard

14 Aug 2008 14 Aug '08

7:46 p.m.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/14/technology/14commons.html Lessig calls this "huge": http://lessig.org/blog/2008/08/huge_and_important_news_free_l.html So if anyone wants to ask sweetly for a GFDL violator to come into compliance ... you do in fact have a stick as well as a carrot. - d.

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Cary Bass

14 Aug 14 Aug

8:37 p.m.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/14/technology/14commons.html Lessig calls this "huge": http://lessig.org/blog/2008/08/huge_and_important_news_free_l.html So if anyone wants to ask sweetly for a GFDL violator to come into compliance ... you do in fact have a stick as well as a carrot. - d.

I believe Wikinews already has this story. - -- Cary

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Andrew Gray

8:44 p.m.

2008/8/14 Cary Bass <cary(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David Gerard wrote:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/14/technology/14commons.html Lessig calls this "huge": http://lessig.org/blog/2008/08/huge_and_important_news_free_l.html So if anyone wants to ask sweetly for a GFDL violator to come into compliance ... you do in fact have a stick as well as a carrot.

I believe Wikinews already has this story.

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/US_Court_of_Appeals_upholds_free_licenses -- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk

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Michael Bimmler

9:03 p.m.

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:46 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/14/technology/14commons.html Lessig calls this "huge": http://lessig.org/blog/2008/08/huge_and_important_news_free_l.html So if anyone wants to ask sweetly for a GFDL violator to come into compliance ... you do in fact have a stick as well as a carrot.

By the way, somewhere along the opinion, there is a sentence like "The Wikimedia Foundation, which was also an amicus curiae, said....". Mike, would it be possible for you to release the WMF's amicus curiae brief to the public? I would be quite interested in this. Michael -- Michael Bimmler mbimmler(a)gmail.com

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Michael Snow

10:08 p.m.

New subject: [Foundation-l] Ruling: copyleft licenses mean what they say, no foolin'

Michael Bimmler wrote:

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:46 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/14/technology/14commons.html Lessig calls this "huge": http://lessig.org/blog/2008/08/huge_and_important_news_free_l.html So if anyone wants to ask sweetly for a GFDL violator to come into compliance ... you do in fact have a stick as well as a carrot.

By the way, somewhere along the opinion, there is a sentence like "The Wikimedia Foundation, which was also an amicus curiae, said....". Mike, would it be possible for you to release the WMF's amicus curiae brief to the public? I would be quite interested in this.

I believe it's the one at http://jmri.sourceforge.net/k/docket/cafc-pi-1/ccc_brf.pdf --Michael Snow

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phoebe ayers

15 Aug 15 Aug

12:53 a.m.

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:46 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/14/technology/14commons.html

I like the part where according to the article, Wikipedia uses the Creative Commons license. Go John Markoff for making license compatibility a reality :P

Lessig calls this "huge": http://lessig.org/blog/2008/08/huge_and_important_news_free_l.html

Also, huzzah! -- phoebe

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