I'm not sure I understand why one should have more "freedom" to twist Mr. Stallman's words than the protection under copyright to reuse and change traditional BBC articles.
Mr. Stallman can be demanding (I have interviewed him twice, a daunting experience) but I think his message is very important. For my part I'm very pleased the BBC has seen fit to publish that commentary. Sean. On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Gareth Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rob Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Stallman believes that works of opinion are different from pieces of > software. He is concerned that arbitrary modifications of a work of opinion > could lead to misrepresentation, and he's not alone in that. Software > doesn't really have that problem, so he's right that they are different. > > I don't agree with his conclusions on this particular issue, I'm just trying > to explain that his position is coherent. > Personally I don't agree with the conclusions either, but everyone is > entitled to their opinions. > > I've no knowledge on Stallman philosophy on anything other than software. It > just jumped out the screen at me, that after the big long article on > freedom, you then get restrictions put on what you can do with the article. > I wouldn't have even considered it if the CC licence had not been mentioned > and the article was posted under the usual site copyright terms. > > -- > Gareth Davis | Production Systems Specialist > > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
