Quoting Tzeng, Nigel H. (nigel.tz...@jhuapl.edu): > He said that CC would consider when they had more timeŠback in 2012Šso I > guess either Creative Commons has been insanely busy the last four years > or that was a very polite way of saying ³yah whatever, the FSF already > recommends CC0 even WITH the patent statement. You came to us, not us to > you².
Or they're _so_ short-staffed that the organisation was actually almost completely de-funded some time in 2014, closing its Mountain View office thus leaving it with a grand total of zero offices, and in some considerable disarray. > My understanding then and now was that it had become clear to them that > Richard and Bruce was going to stall approval for a long time/forever > unless they took out the patent clause that the open data folks wanted. So > they withdrew because they were never going to do that and the discussions > were getting more and more heated. I was part of the (public) discussions, and it is just not correct to assert that they were getting more and more heated. (For the record, I stated consistently, starting immediately upon its submission, that CC0 was manifestly open source on account of its fallback permissive licence.) You'll pardon me if I don't simply take your word on what you allege about behind-the-scenes plotting. I know only that what has been stated upthread is a misrepresentation of the 2012 discussion, which I remember quite well (and is also archived for the curious). Nor am I going to get derailed onto irrelevancies. Speaking of looking silly. > If you don¹t consider it was damaging then consider this: the White House > has told government agencies that "Thou Shall Open Source 20% of Your > Software Portfolio² and their first example was their own code.gov site > released under CC0*. Well, it _is_ open source. Endless variant forms of permissive licences are. _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org https://lists.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss