On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 01:34:53AM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > > Hence, I don't know what the lawyers are looking for, but a license that > grants too few permissions is not OK to me, even if it does so in a > legally perfect manner. > It seems to me that you are looking at this as a sort of "all or nothing" situation. I don't think that is correct.
A license that grants what you consider to be too few permissions might be too many for some. Now if we were to rely only standard copyright, then only the original creator would be permitted to distribute his work. Redistribution would be prohibited. Now, if the creator decides that he would like to permit free redistribution as long as the redistributor does not realize a commercial gain, then fine. That is an improvement, because before that the redistributor would not have been permitted to redistribute. Depending on the situation, the creator may have decided to create the work and give it away, as long others did likewise without making money. Now, is this situation perfect? No. I suppose the utopian ideal would be something like ST:TNG, where we all endeavor in a field of our choosing about which we are passionate solely for the purpose of self actualization. All knowledge is shared and there is no impediment to its exchange. Of course, as we live in the real world and are predominantly driven by money as a society, we really can't do as they do in ST:TNG. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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