Dnia piątek, 8 maja 2015 11:52:43 Aaron Wolf pisze: > Honest people follow licenses and thus self-censor. Dishonest people > ignore licenses. Removing ND terms means we get more spreading of ideas > via translations and other derivatives by honest people.
This. The Polish translation has never been published, as we have not received the license. Dnia piątek, 8 maja 2015 13:15:37 Will Hill pisze: > Someone has been messing with Google Translations, as if to underline the > point and to waste people's time with infighting. Trisquel in English > translates to "Ubuntu" and "totally free" in English translates to > "gratuito" in Spanish. > > http://50.80.140.55/photo_album/chron/2015/2015_05_05-google_translate_trisq > uel/ And that proves what? That Google Translate is not perfect at translations?.. How exactly an -ND license fixes that? > Without some restrictions, we give publishers the ability to modify out > message in ways which oppress all of us. We should guard against > misrepresentation by people who have the resources to bury any signal under > a pile of noise. As I have written many, many times, -ND does next nothing to actually stop this. This only stops honest initiatives; the rest simply ignore the license. > I think the free software community has larger problems and will allocate > resources properly. Who is going to censor a Polish translation by an > honest group, especially if they don't have the time or resources to > properly review it? That's the way big publishers and groups like the BSA > use copyright law. I find your lax approach to copyright law and licenses highly problematic, and quite a bit offensive -- copyleft, the (I would argue) crucial part of free software, could not be enforced without copyright. The above paragraph makes me eerily uncomfortable, as you seem to be okay with a situation where an entity *selectively* uses law to target other entities. That's hypocrisy. That's the old Soviet rule of "give me a man and I'll find the law", or Robespierre's "give me a few senteces written by a hand of an honest man and I'll find something to hang them for." That's how Aaron Swartz has been targeted -- with unjust laws that people assumed would be used in a just manner. Either fix the license, or bite the bullet. I also think the free software community has bigger problems, and that is *precisely* why I believe -ND is counter-productive and unnecessary. -- Pozdrawiam, Michał "rysiek" Woźniak Zmieniam klucz GPG :: http://rys.io/pl/147 GPG Key Transition :: http://rys.io/en/147
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