Remember code is poetry... http://java.sun.com/features/2002/11/gabriel_qa.html
I use the CC license, and consider the PDL just another (trivial) variation on a free license. I vote for dumping the PDL and adopting the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). This makes more sense than using the CC license as the GFDL was created to use with GPLed software. Keeping the types of licensing OOo uses down to a minimum is good for overall PR and end-users...we don't want to confuse them with different (sounding) licenses coming from different sources (with different ideals and ambitions). The GFDL is fairly modern (Version 1.2, November 2002) and will probably harmonize well with the next version of the GPL which is due soon(?). Although the CC is straight forward and I really would rather use it; we already use the GPL for OOo, so using the GFDL makes more sense...remember keep it simple ;-) On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 17:43 -0500, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Ralph Aichinger wrote: > > > > So, people, please speak up! In particular, does anyone object to the CC > > > license, and if so why? > > > > I haven't read all of this discussion yet, but I do think with some > > CC licenses there is a huge problem: They are considered non-free > > by the Debian project, because they are not compatible with the > > Debian Free Software Guidelines. > > First of all, these aren't software licenses. Second, we are talking about > a very specific CC license. Not just any license. We are talking about the > CC Attribution. And *that* license is a free (non-software) license: > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html > > Scroll to the bottom. It says that the CC Attribution is "a non-copyleft > Free license". The CC attribution license is the most free license > available from Creative Commons. > > Finally, this license is *more* free than the PDL. I can't imagine anyone > considering the PDL free and the CC-Attribution non-free. > > Do you have the email address for debian-legal ? > > Cheers, -- Rick Barnes www.nostabo.net ************************************************* There are 10 kinds of people, those that can read binary numbers and those that can't... --> Sent via Evolution 2.0.4 running on a Linux 2.6.11 Gentoo kernel.
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