[Foundation-l] 2006-2011: Mexican, Argentinian, Brazilian governments distance themselves from freedomdefined 1.0

Mon Mar 7 07:54:16 UTC 2011

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:18 AM, Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.rs> wrote:
>>> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Teofilo<teofilowiki at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>> Mexico switched from PD to CC-BY-NC-ND in 2006 (1)
>>>> Argentina from CC-BY-SA to CC-BY-NC some time in 2009-2011 (2)
>>>> Brazil removed CC-BY-SA altogether from the culture ministry website
>>>> in early 2011, in a context where the ministry is planning to reform
>>>> the copyright law (3)
>
> And do we have any knowledge on why did this happened?
>
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2006 had a cabinet change, new president, new offices, etc.
This happens every 6 years, and each cabinet decides how to publish
their own materials

Having a more business background than previous goverments may have
influenced the change