[Foundation-l] Creative Commons CC-BY-SA Draft Statement of Intent

[geni]

On 06/04/2008, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at 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-publishers-over-wikipedia-ban.html


>  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