Re: Creative Commons Metamorphosis

2004-08-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:51:56PM +0800, David Palmer wrote:
 There's a new style of licence happening at Creative Commons.
 It is typified by the policy of attempting to meld closed and open 
 source, particularly in relation to software.
 Is this where this project was heading all along?
 This same proposition is one that has been previously touted by such 
 entities as Microsoft.

What does this have to do with debian-devel?

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Take it to debian-legal or something.

Cheers,

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Creative Commons Metamorphosis

2004-08-18 Thread David Palmer
There's a new style of licence happening at Creative Commons.
It is typified by the policy of attempting to meld closed and open 
source, particularly in relation to software.
Is this where this project was heading all along?
This same proposition is one that has been previously touted by such 
entities as Microsoft.

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/4368
Since when have the products of open source been unavailable to the 
commercial sphere anyway?
Ventures of this nature have the potential to cloud the middle ground, 
and compromise the legal status of standards such as the GPL. This may 
well be the strategy involved.
Regards,

David.
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