The lawyers among us, more than anything, want the clearest explanation of the different use cases to cover the scenarios the community will deal with on a daily basis. The nitty-gritty of the legalese will be debated endlessly by lawyers, no matter what the scenarios - that comes with the territory.
The consensus view (to the extent possible) should simply and elegantly describe how these bits are expected to come together in an intuitive, simple-to-understand way. CC made great progress with its licenses in the first place with simple memes which explain how to accomplish the lion's share of licensing activities. The same should be true at this stage.
When WMF/CC initially talked through these issues almost a year ago, it became clear a consensus view could not be achieved in a short timeframe. Consensus-building takes lots of good-faith communication. I applaud those providing examples of scenarios which will have real impacts on a large scale. Please keep building the list of situations. The lawyers can parse it out. But the community needs to build a shared understanding of what the outcomes will be.
Brad
As non-lawyers, we should figure out what is that we want to do and what we think would be best for our community first without getting caught up in legal minutiae we don't understand. Once we've done that, our lawyers can then tell us what the best ways to proceed are what the trade-offs will entail.
Regards, Mako
-- Benjamin Mako Hill mako@atdot.cc http://mako.cc/
Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto
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