[Foundation-l] Proposal: Commons Force

[Sage Ross]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:07 AM, <wiki-lists at phizz.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>
> The last time someone just said 'Creative Commons license' on one of my
> pics they were linking back to the flickr page which has the CC license
> link. Now most dont bother saying CC though they do link back to the
> flickr photopage, the information is available you just have to go look
> for it a bit. Does that count in your world?

I generally try to enforce the spirit, rather the the letter, of
licenses.  If someone links back to the source, that's generally good
enough for me because someone who sees it has a practical way of
finding out the license and reusing it themselves if they want to.

The exception to that is when they are using it in a way that should
trigger the viral aspect of the copyleft license.  In that case, it's
important for them to acknowledge that in order to use my work they
have to free their own, and to notify others that their work as well
as mine if freely licensed.

-Sage