Victor, Using this interpretation of Free Software principles, should we remove the All Rights Reserved option from the Creative Commons module? Surely that code is also restricting the free movement of information. What about the Troll module which blocks users that disrupt a community?
While I like to see information move as freely as possible, I don't think you'll find much support to remove modules that limit access... especially modules that limit access in one way to make it available in another. If we remove All Rights Reserved from CC, many sites won't use the module. As a result, less content is licensed as Share and Share Alike. Who is going to argue that Drupal needs to protect the rights of trolls to access information? Banning users based on their country or limiting access to all but one country may be the most effective way to facilitate communication for that community. I can't imagine that you are arguing that there should be no private content at all... that everything should be free. How does limiting how code restricts access to information adhere to Free Software principles? --- Kevin Reynen - Senior Developer Open Media Foundation - Putting the power of the media and technology in the hands of the people. www.openmediafoundation.org On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Victor Kane <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, Richard Stallman was here in Buenos Aires recently and I went to his > talk. > He is talking about free movement of info, as in, people being able to share > books, etc. > We can arbitrarily reduce that to code if we wish, but then, we can > arbitrarily do anything. > > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Laura <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Mar 9, 2010, at Tue 3/9/10 7:46am, Victor Kane wrote: >> >> > I feel all Open Source projects should adhere to Free Software >> > Foundation principles involving the free movement of information. >> >> To me, the overriding principle is free movement of code. >> >> Laura >
