[Foundation-l] Attribution survey, first results

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/3/3 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com>:
> Thomas Dalton wrote:
>> Excellent. Getting some idea of community opinion is very important.
>> However, has anyone carried out my suggestion of consulting with the
>> CC lawyers? They wrote the license, so their interpretation of it is
>> highly relevant. Community opinion is only relevant within the bounds
>> of what is acceptable under the license.
>>
>
> While there is nothing I disagree logically with in your
> statement; I do think the last sentence is only acceptable
> if taken in the absolute.
>
> Certainly that is an "utmost" framework that cannot be
> transgressed. But there are many, many, many things
> clearly and unambiguously acceptable within hte bounds
> of the license, which are clearly unacceptable for our
> mission.
>
> There is no reason for us to stretch the license "as far
> as it can go".

I don't understand what you are disagreeing with... The license has
certain requirements, there is a long list of things that would
satisfy those requirements. Community opinion should be used to decide
which items on that list we consider acceptable, it can't be used to
decide that things not on that list are acceptable.