On 06/04/2008, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, When you insist on the enforcement of "share alike" in the strongest possible way, you prevent mashing and collaboration.
You prevent no such thing. You are free to colaberate as long as you only use free material.
You prevent the use of material in academic papers.
Nope. Academic papers could be released under free licenses (there is currently an ongoing argument over the matter.
In this way the medicine that are free and open licenses is as bad as what it is to cure; restrictive licenses and restrictive practices.
CC-BY is exists if you don't want SA.
Obviously it is a choice, it may even be your choice but you *are *replacing restrictive practices with restrictive practices..
The idea is that by using strong copy left you are saying that if you want to play our game you play by our rules.