Re: Creative Commons negotiations

2006-01-28 Thread Evan Prodromou
Benj. Mako Hill wrote: quote who=Frank Küster date=Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 08:50:04PM +0100 Thank you for the report; it sounds promising, but on the other hand it sounds as if talking upstream authors[1] into relicensing their documentation with a CC license will not be an option for etch.

Re: Creative Commons negotiations

2006-01-26 Thread Benj. Mako Hill
quote who=Frank Küster date=Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 08:50:04PM +0100 Thank you for the report; it sounds promising, but on the other hand it sounds as if talking upstream authors[1] into relicensing their documentation with a CC license will not be an option for etch. That depends on when 3.0

Re: Creative Commons negotiations

2006-01-25 Thread Josh Triplett
Evan Prodromou wrote: Here's the poop, in a nutshell: after a few months of back-and-forths, we worked out a draft license that the working group felt was compatible with the DFSG. CC hopes to apply the changes to the upcoming CC 3.0 license suite draft, and that version will be available for

Creative Commons negotiations

2006-01-24 Thread Frank Küster
Hi Evan, hi all, is there any public information about the progress in the talks with CC about clarification/amelioration/whatever of their licenses? TIA, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)

Re: Creative Commons negotiations

2006-01-24 Thread Evan Prodromou
On Tue, 2006-24-01 at 19:40 +0100, Frank Kster wrote: is there any public information about the progress in the talks with CC about clarification/amelioration/whatever of their licenses? No, but that's just because I've been lazy and haven't done a proper report to d-d-a. Here's the poop,

Re: Creative Commons negotiations

2006-01-24 Thread Frank Küster
Evan Prodromou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have an idea of when the 3.0 license draft will be available, what other changes there may be, or pretty much where things go from here. But I do know that CC seems to take DFSG-compatibility seriously and that they're going to be open to our