[Foundation-l] Creative Commons CC-BY-SA Draft Statement of Intent

Sat Apr 5 11:18:26 UTC 2008

On 05/04/2008, effe iets anders <effeietsanders at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/4/5, geni <geniice at gmail.com>:
>
> >
>  >  >  - I would really like to see that CC is working on our license with
>  >  >  FSF and/or Software Freedom Law Center. At least to consult them about
>  >  >  the conditions. Actually, I am interested to hear what do those two
>  >  >  organizations have to say about the new conditions.
>  >
>  >
>  > The FSF produced the GFDL. I think that disqualifies then from telling
>  >  anyone else how to write a free content license.
>  >
>
> Thank you for your constructive behaviour.

I like to think I've done what I can:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GSFDL
http://gplv3.fsf.org/sfdl-draft-2006-09-26.html

What did you do?

>That they wrote a license
>  that stands in court and that does what it is intended for,

The GPL? Yes they have shown an ability to write some of the better
free software licenses.

> of
>  *course* disqualifies them for having a good legal and cultural view
>  (not per se the truth, but a view) on changes in licenses.

No writing the GFDL did that. Ever read the GFDL? I mean really read
it and consider what certain elements of it really mean? Consider the
case where you want to give a printed copy of an article to someone.

> No, we
>  should never try to ask their opinion, because the risk they could
>  make a valid point is too big! Brrrr
>

They've had years to do so and have not done so. At this point the
only useful thing they can do is hand over the GFDL to CC.

-- 
geni