2009/3/3 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro(a)gmail.com>om>:
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.