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

[geni]

On 06/04/2008, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Technically so is anything not in the public domain in a jurisdiction
without moral rights.

>  It does not change the fact that you cannot use "share alike" material in
>  academic papers.

That is not universally the case.

>
>  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,

The statement by CC is part of the effort to solve this problem.

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geni