On 4/1/15, 12:49 PM, "Rick Moen" <[email protected]> wrote:
>I should hasten to say that you have a very good point that the Creative >Commons approach has merit, and I wrote my comment far too hastily. > >You're right; it would be a good thing if someone skilled in the art >were to attempt that. Short summaries of existing licences would be a >fine start, though I could swear that there have been a few. Yes. There appeared to be a short lived effort to wrap software licenses with CC like text at CC but that doesn¹t appear to have met much success/interest. Probably because it was seen as outside their swim lane and the lack of CC branding on the licenses themselves. I think that the branding of the CC-BY and CC-whatever has significant value. I used ³software commons² or ³SC² as an example as not to be too blatantly suggestive but OSI-BY and OSI-BY-SA could have equal if not more brand value within the software domain. Have I read all the legalese behind the CC licenses? No. I trust the brand and while I have perused some just as a sanity check I also realize that I¹m not a lawyer and I would miss the nuances anyway. So I depend that the CC organization has put forth a best effort in making sure the human-readable summaries match the legal text. >It should be remembered that the CC 'human-readable' summaries are not >the operative texts, though. That¹s true. For professional work I would have our legal office determine if it suitable for use. For personal stuff, like I said, I trust the brand so I mark my photos CC-BY-NC-SA. >Fair enough. I honestly wish people wouldn't get hung up on the >manifestos, as they are NOOPs in the functioning of the legal >instruments. I tend to disregard them. I dislike the presumption that the use of GPL implies support for the FSF viewpoint. A perspective that the FSF fosters as evidence of how much they dominate the FOSS world as opposed to say BSD/Apache. Yes, WE all know this is not true. _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
