[Foundation-l] An argument for strong copyleft

Nikola Smolenski smolensk at eunet.yu
Wed Apr 9 05:34:45 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 09 April 2008 00:20:50 geni wrote:
> On 08/04/2008, Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.yu> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 08 April 2008 23:16:34 geni wrote:
> >  > On 08/04/2008, Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.yu> wrote:
> >  > >  > >I am aware that there are use cases that are
> >  > >  > >  inbetween. Yet most of the cases fall in two clearly separate
> >  > >  > > categories: one for which I do want the enhancement to my work
> >  > >  > > to be freely reusable, and one for which I am content with my
> >  > >  > > work illustrating an unrelated work.
> >  > >  >
> >  > >  > Meaningless since you will not define which is which.
> >  > >
> >  > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_fallacy
> >  >
> >  > Okey I acknowledge there are grey areas. I deal with grey areas all
> >  > the time. However I gave you a list of partical real world examples.
> >  > If you are unable to sort them then your position is useless.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_sequitur_(logic)
>
> Argument by wikilink?
>
> Okey then lets go through this one more time
>
> Is a caption an enhancement to your work?
> Is being made part of a collage an enhancement to your work?
> Is being made part of a flow chart an enhancement to your work?
> Is a title an enhancement to your work?
> Is a histogram an an enhancement to your work?

None of it matters. Being used to illustrate a text on unrelated subject is 
NOT an enhancement to my work, I don't see the need to affect the copyright 
of the text, and that is all that I am saying.



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