It's not terribly limiting; there are after all *thousands of years* of public domain literature to play with!
Pick a forgotten comedy from Caesar's Rome or Elizabeth's England and let's see how it stands up :P Thanks, Richard On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 9:35 PM, C. Alaric Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > I think you're right Rob, I have looked into it a bit more and it > seems that they are trying to simplify the license-load. Though I am > still frustrated by this, I am curious as to why they have decided to > operate this way, as I feel it really limits what they can do. > > On 14/03/2011, Asheesh Laroia <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, C. Alaric Moore wrote: >> >>> So, about making wiki page etc. I have been looking around the "public >>> domain" rules, and am seeing that all CC licensed materials can't be >>> read for the LibriVox project. Reason being that they [LibriVox] allow >>> for commercial uses of their materials. I find this to be particularly >>> frustrating, because there are a lot of awesome! materials that can't be >>> published in audio form by this group. >>> >>> So question: Any alternatives? Is it necessary to make an alternative if >>> none are found? What are your thoughts on this? >> >> Well, there are a bunch of Creative Commons licenses that *do* permit >> commercial re-use. So maybe those are permissible within Librivox? >> >> -- Asheesh. >> >> -- >> Q: Why haven't you graduated yet? >> A: Well, Dad, I could have finished years ago, but I wanted >> my dissertation to rhyme. >> > > > -- > *Sincerely, > > Clarissa Alaric Moore* > ***405-343-4352 > * > * > * > *** > * > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
