[Foundation-l] Clearing up Wikimedia's media licensing policies

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Ray Saintonge wrote:
> The first clause in the quotation is remarkable for its ambiguity.  My 
> first inclination was to read this as indicating that property is 
> essential to the definition of culture, or that a society that does not 
> believe in capital does not have a culture.  A more acceptable 
> interpretation is that a culture does not exclude the existence of 
> property.  In other words
> 
>> A free culture is not a culture - without property
>>
>> A free culture is not - a culture without property
>>
> Having artists be paid is acceptable in both circumstances.  In 
> accounting terms, property is an asset on the balance sheet; getting 
> paid belongs in the revenue portion of the financial statements.
> 
> Ec

Hi, and thanks for your thoughts. In clarifying the quote how do you
think you should take into account the second sentence - seemingly the
counterpoint and twin of the first in the quotation, which is in
essence: "A culture without property ... is anarchy, not freedom."  - luke

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