Geni, It is fine that you do not like the practices of the RIAA of the Getty (what Getty :) ) I am with you on this one. This does however not change the argument that any and all "share alike" licenses are restrictive in nature. It does not change the fact that you cannot use "share alike" material in academic papers.
You will also have to agree with me that material that is licensed under a Free/Open license cannot be used together with material licensed under another Free/Open license in a round trip way. Much information needs to be and is recreated because of the curse of incompatible licenses. It is the end-user that suffers. Thanks, GerardM
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 12:46 PM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/04/2008, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, Absolutely, you are completely right that when using "share alike"
licensed
material you have to play by its rules. No mistake there. Let there
also be
no mistake that this *is *a restrictive practice and where you state
that
there is an ongoing argument about the use in academic papers, you implicitly agree that the use of "share alike" material is prevented
for
many academic papers.
Yes but by the journal publishers. Weak copyleft will make little difference in this case. See
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19726473.300-physicists-slam-publisher...
I do know about the existence of CC-by. I am grateful that there is a
lot of
material that cannot be copyrighted anyway. I am equally grateful that
this
is the kind of material that has most of my interest.
PS by saying "our rules" you either intentionally exclude or
intentionally
include. When we discuss the merits of licenses there is no need for
either.
Getty and the RIAA play by one set of rules and requires anyone using their content to play by those rules. Free software plays by a different set of rules and requires everyone using that code to play by that set of rules.
-- geni
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