2009/3/3 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
Excellent. Getting some idea of community opinion is very important. However, has anyone carried out my suggestion of consulting with the CC lawyers? They wrote the license, so their interpretation of it is highly relevant. Community opinion is only relevant within the bounds of what is acceptable under the license.
While there is nothing I disagree logically with in your statement; I do think the last sentence is only acceptable if taken in the absolute.
Certainly that is an "utmost" framework that cannot be transgressed. But there are many, many, many things clearly and unambiguously acceptable within hte bounds of the license, which are clearly unacceptable for our mission.
There is no reason for us to stretch the license "as far as it can go".
I don't understand what you are disagreeing with... The license has certain requirements, there is a long list of things that would satisfy those requirements. Community opinion should be used to decide which items on that list we consider acceptable, it can't be used to decide that things not on that list are acceptable.