Creative Commons considered harmful (was Re: Relicensing your contributions to wiki.debian.org)
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Maytham Alsudany dixit:
>I am attempting to relicense some important content from wiki.debian.org
>to CC BY-SA 4.0 for inclusion in the new MediaWiki instance that
>currently runs at wiki2025.debian.org. The goal is to ensure all work on
>this new wiki is under a known, consistent license. See [1] for more
>information.
I am *very* unhappy with both CC licences and how CC operates.
I’m also under the strong belief that technical wikis should have
the entirety of their content put under dual-licencing, with at
least one code and one nōn-code licence in the mix (or just use
The MirOS Licence (MirBSD), which can be used for either).
>Do you give permission for all work you have submitted to
>wiki.debian.org to be distributed under the terms of the Creative
>Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license, the text of
>which can be found at [2]?
No, not like that.
┌──┤ permission grant ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────
│ I do give permission for all work I have submitted to wiki.debian.org
│ to be distributed in a dual-licencing (actually triple) schema, as
│ “MirBSD OR MIT OR CC-BY 4.0”, with the extra caveat that, for the CC
│ part of this, https://evolvis.org/~tg/cc.htm shall hold true, i.e.
│ that licensor’s intent regarding reuse of these works in LLM/so-called
│ “AI” overrides the statements by Creative Commons on these.
│
│ (This is the same “interpretation guidelines” as are on the homepage
│ of The MirOS Licence, as well as comparable to those from my counter-
│ proposal on the recent GR discussion on so-called “AI”. This is
│ nōn-negotiable, but an equivalent interpretation guidelines hosted on
│ a .debian.org domain would be similarly acceptable.)
│
│ In addition, I give permission for code snippets on the Wiki that are
│ shorter than a hundred lines to be licenced as MirBSD OR MIT or CC0.
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
I would like to apologise ahead of time for the extra effort I know
this will make you.
bye,
//mirabilos
- --
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ksh93 in that respect. I'd even consider it for my daily use if I hadn't
wasted half my life on my zsh setup. :-) -- Frank Terbeck in #!/bin/mksh
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