[Foundation-l] Article in Newsweek

[Brian McNeil]

The GPL and GFDL licenses have their roots in a time when the Internet was
not so widely available. Many of the early uses of these licenses would be
in packages you'd get passed to you on a floppy disk.

I don't disagree with the idea that if you copy GFDL content into a book you
put the license in an appendix. I'd actually argue that under the same
circumstances with CC-BY-??? You should, not must, but should, at the very
least include the summarised text of the license and an easily readable web
page URL (i.e. not tiny print) that you can type in to get the full license
text. [This is in the sense/context that RFC documents use "should".]

I think wiki demonstrates that you need to have ideals and noble goals but
temper them with a more practical approach to the real world. RMS is a
little too idealistic for my tastes, but that doesn't mean you should
dismiss the point he is making.


Brian McNeil

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[mailto:foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of GerardM
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Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Article in Newsweek

Hoi,
It is nice to see everyone agree that RMS is the problem in getting more and
better open content collaboration going.
Thanks,
    GerardM

On Nov 20, 2007 1:44 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 20/11/2007, Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org> wrote:
> > http://www.newsweek.com/id/71360/page/1
> >
> >
> >
> > More meat than the NYT piece, and spoke to Lessig about the work to get
> a
> > better license that doesn't involve including the entire GFDL.
>
> Mr Lessig is not however the person you need. RMS would appear to be
> the current problem.
>
>
> --
> geni
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