[Foundation-l] Creative Commons CC-BY-SA Draft Statement of Intent
Milos Rancic
millosh at gmail.com
Sun Apr 6 12:32:12 UTC 2008
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> A lawyer argues the case according to the requirements of his paymaster. It
> is exactly for this reason that different lawyers come with different
> answers to the same question. This means that a legal opinion of one lawyer
> is very much within reason worth the money that is paid for it and the money
> available to argue the point.
So, I asked for analysis from *our* lawyer (i.e. Mike) and from
lawyers of a couple of institutions which may be considered as fairly
independent. (As well as I am open for other suggestions.)
> With a blind trust in lawyers, why would you think our community needs to
> form an opinion about this? In the end it is about power and trust. I trust
> people like Jimmy, Erik and Mike to do wel for usl. I feel no need to second
> guess them. My politics is about creating knowledge that is freely available
> and as such I positively hate all the licenses that restrict me alike.
I said previously a couple of times two very simple statements:
- Trusting to someone is one thing, keeping the process transparent is another.
- From your list, I already asked for Mike's analysis.
I didn't hear would we stay at CC-BY-SA 3.5/4.0 forever or we would
have a possibility to switch to some newer license. If yes, how would
we do that?
I didn't hear an explanation what are our options if something goes
wrong. Would we have a possibility to switch to another license if we
are not content with some future version of CC-BY-SA.
> We all agree that the GFDL was not intended for use cases like Wikipedia and
> we suffer for it. Now let us PLEASE harmonise the CC-by-sa and the GFDL in
> order to have our practices be more in line with the letter of the license.
> Thanks,
I agree with you and I would like to see those two licenses
harmonized. However, I don't like the fact that I've got all important
informations in private talks. This is not only a matter of me (or
whoever personally, or whichever group alone), but a matter of all
contributors to Wikimedian projects.
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