Paul Wise dijo [Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 01:17:29AM +0800]: > Sadly Creative Commons are still peddling non-free licenses :( > > https://lwn.net/Articles/490202/ Right... Well, and I must admit something here in public: When the CC 4.0 draft process started¹ on December 2011, I volunteered to follow on it. And although I have followed it and took part in several discussions, trying to do it as Debian-minded as possible, I ended up leaving the debate as it spiraled into many non-constructive discussions. I know Francesco Poli, quite active in this list, has been following up lately much closer than me. I have identified other Debian people in the discussions as well. (I doubt singling out each of them is needed). There are several points we do not share, but at least I think that between all of us we have helped voice our project's stance. It is important to me to see how CC-minded people *do* know and care about the Debian project, even if they have a different mindset, be it on specific details or on important issues. There were several important points discussed, which I hope to see soon published (such as the time-limited license expiry/change). Important points to us, such as the GPL compatibility (or even GPL conversibility, which I am personally not very supportive of), have also been treated. Now, finally, and answering to Paul's comment: Yes, CC will continue to have non-free licenses (NonCommercia, NoDerivatives) as part of their offering, as an important part of the people choosing CC for their works are choosing said licenses. What CC is trying to achieve is to reduce the amount of contradictory points. As an example, in order to define one of their DFSG-free licenses (BY-SA - Attribution and ShareAlike), they will basically remove all NC provisions from the BY-NC-SA (for which the draft was published). Many of us feel it's the only sane way to strengthen CC and to increase the awareness on really-free licenses (and thus the amount of pieces of work licensed that way). ¹ http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-licenses/2011-December/006428.html
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