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

[Milos Rancic]

He is not a lawyer. Being deeply involved and understanding social
processes don't qualify one person to be a lawyer who is able to
analyze possible judicial consequences of one legal act, like license
is.

On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi,
>  Why do you think particularly Erik is an amateur at this? I would say that
>  one of the reasons why he was offered the job of deputy director of the WMF
>  is because of his efforts in this field. Given that Jimmy is a board member
>  of the CC and a board member of the WMF, I would not qualify him as just an
>  amateur either.
>  Thanks,
>      GerardM
>
>
>
>  On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  > The whole process was far from transparent and you are continuing with
>  > writing rationalizations for keeping the process nontransparent.
>  > Changing the license is not only a matter of the Board, but it is a
>  > matter of all contributors.
>  >
>  > I don't remember that I've seen any professional analysis of what we
>  > are getting and what we are losing by switching from one to another
>  > license. There were only amateur arguing (including your, Erik's,
>  > mine, Gregory's, Gerard's...) pro and contra one or another license.
>  > (If there was such analysis, please, give me a link.)
>  >
>  > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>  > > Milos Rancic wrote:
>  > >  > May you inform us about at least some of your conclusions (I am
>  > >  > particularly interested in Mike's conclusions, of course)? Also,
>  > while
>  > >  > I am not perfectly informed about this, I really wouldn't miss the
>  > >  > information which you said now. So, please, may this process be a
>  > >  > little bit more transparent?
>  > >
>  > >  I am not sure what I can tell you.  What do you want to know?
>  > >
>  > >  It is not possible to tell you blow by blow the state of complex
>  > >  discussions.  It's the hands of lawyers who are working very
>  > >  thoughtfully about how to deal with complex issues.  Discussions have
>  > >  been going on for years, and things are very close to resolution.
>  > >
>  > >  There was a public comment process, did you take part in it?
>  > >
>  > >  --Jimbo
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
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