On 16/10/2006, at 2:21 AM, Nelson Minar wrote:
My biggest fear is that these businesses are going to be built where their entire business model is "we have the only source of data and we protect it with all the DRM we can muster". If that happens, the result will be that a lot of interesting legitimate businesses will be impeded and we'll be left having to steal data and use modchips to do powerful things with geographic data.
So let's start up a debate about a dangerous topic that I'm sure that many wouldn't want us to have... therefore we should have it!
Is it possible to have a GNU or BSD style license for a network protocol? A statement that says "if you use this protocol, you are declaring that all data published via programs implementing this protocol is free (as in beer)"?
I would like a browser where the URL's "gnu://" and "free://" means something! It would be an API to standardise access to uniform licensing and open up a range of applications that are not in breach of various laws.
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