25 Oct
2003
25 Oct
'03
1:20 p.m.
Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo,
Mark Knecht hat gesagt: // Mark Knecht wrote:
the license that Mark is referring to is the Sampling License.
Speaking of Creative Commons, did any of you see
the major article in, of
all places, The Wall Street Journal last week about Creative Commons and a
new CD being released under that license.
There is no "that license" and this is also what I don't like about
Creavtive Commons. There is a whole bunch of CC licenses and some of
these I wouldn't even consider "free".
For example there is a CC license that forbids commercial
distribution. Such things would go to non-free in Debian.
thats the point of CC though - it isnt about free / non-free, its about
choice. some people feel as strongly about public domain as others do
about free software / free music. CC is just there to facilitate an easy
selection of licenses which are watertight legally, so that musicians /
artists / writers / filmmakers can get on with doing what they do best,
and licensing it according to their views.
personally, i use the Attribution-Share-Alike license, which is pretty
much a translation of the GPL.
but i will not be forced to judge that as being somehow 'better' than
Tom Poe's work with the Public Domain - www.studioforrecording.org.
both are about freedom. and unfortunately, if you really want to enable
freedom, you also have to allow freedom of choice.
the factionism that i see among some free software advocates disappoints
me greatly as it is totally in contrast to the spirit of freedom itself.
we cannot force people to be free - but some seem to be rather keen on
it. i'd hate to see the evolution of Free Software Nazism - but that
sort of thing dangerously approaches it.
free the freedom?
m~
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