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

[Gerard Meijssen]

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 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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