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

Sat Apr 5 11:41:04 UTC 2008

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 12:38 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  - 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.

As well as CC made a lot of shit on Internet (SA i not really SA, NC
is not really NC, ND is not really ND; actually, according to the
various interpretations, the only clear condition is BY), which
disqualifies them to write a free content license.

There are always two options: to talk or not to talk.

>  >  - If we are willing to keep "... or any later version of the
>  >  license..." inside of our documents (are we?), I would like to see
>  >  much more active position of WMF in the process of making new versions
>  >  of the license. Let's say, our lawyer(s) (Mike or whoever) should
>  >  periodically inform us about new moments in licensing development and
>  >  what do other relevant institutions (FSF, SFLC, MIT, FSF Europe...)
>  >  think about them.
>
>  We get told about the new developments. There just are not very many of them.

I want to hear an analysis of our lawyer (CC lawyers are not *our*;
AFAIK, Erik is not a lawyer) about possible consequences of the new
features of the license. As well as I want to hear by our lawyer an
analysis of contemporary features of the license to which we intend to
switch.

And if you don't like FSF so much, I would be quite happy with MIT
interpretation, as an independent one.