Not true. *if* we would allow NC, I bet it will be possible to persue a lot of institutions to give their images, paintings, texts etc away under the NC. So it does have a huge potential, also for pictures with on the short term no free equivalent. But that is not what this discussion should be about imho. I dont think we should be talking about what images we would like to use, i think we should talk about what we are *allowed* (legally) to use. And as I said already quite a while before, that is mostly a case for license-experts, copyright-experts, the foundation and their willingness to face a potential sue, and maybe as well the free software foundtaion, the writer of the GNU Free Documentation License. *If* it would be allowed by all those, it is time for us as community or maybe as every community by itself, to choose what licenses we *want* to use, taking into account what the possible consequenses are and what the costs to our ideals are. The first is more a fact, that we have to find out, and let some people do research to, the second is more an opinion. For the first I would suggest to ask experts to find this out, to ask the foundation to take a stand on this issue, to ask the FSF advice, and see whether it is _allowed_ or not. For the second question I would suggest to have a more structured and broad discussion, possibly on meta, where the discussion could be split into different topics, and the arguments can be collected in a way that one can keep oversight. Because who exactly is benefitting from this very discussion? We have very great texts here, but the problem is that probably only a small group reads this (due to the amount of text) and those in this group already took a stand, and wont be persuaded anymore. It makes little sense that way :) Please let someone set up a structured discussion on meta, so it will be easier to follow, and it will less be making people to quit foundation-l due to the amount of messages in their inbox (not everybody has gmail). I myself would prefer first _*at least*_ a guideline of the foundation, stating what the boundaries are within which we can move.
Lodewijk
2007/1/19, geni geniice@gmail.com:
On 1/19/07, rfrangi@libero.it rfrangi@libero.it wrote:
Same applies to NC images.
Roberto (Snowdog)
There arew very few NC images for which a free equiv is not posible.
-- geni
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