[Foundation-l] Board meeting in Rotterdam later this week

Fri Jan 19 12:11:46 UTC 2007

On 1/19/07, effe iets anders <effeietsanders at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not true. *if* we would allow NC, I bet it will be possible to persue a lot
> of institutions to give their images, paintings, texts etc away under the
> NC. So it does have a huge potential, also for pictures with on the short
> term no free equivalent. But that is not what this discussion should be
> about imho. I dont think we should be talking about what images we would
> like to use, i think we should talk about what we are *allowed* (legally) to
> use.

Anything until the foundation gets the takedown notice however that
approach is unhelpful.

> *If* it would be allowed by all those, it is time for us as community or
> maybe as every community by itself, to choose what licenses we *want* to
> use, taking into account what the possible consequenses are and what the
> costs to our ideals are.

The foundation has rejected that position in the past. no reason to
think they will do otherwise in future.

You know I've seen complaints that the foundation pays to much
attention to en at the expense of other projects. Now I hope you see
the other side of that.
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geni