On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:19 PM, jtd <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 06 October 2010 12:56:24 Andrew Lynn wrote: > > > > On the content : The govt. is really dragging its feet on both > > NPTEL and NCERT content - both of which should be made public > > domain or at least CC-BY. > > ALL government funded content and knowledge must be CC-BY-SA. > > Say No to the CC license itself. CC is "Advertised" as '*Good license scheme*' but it is like sending Army for killing an ant.
CC is not at all simple license. There are 1000+ version available for CC license. CC itself has 11 valid license scheme and that too has country specific version. CC is dividing whole content industry into WALLs of these 1000+ license. for example If I share my pic under CC-By-Sa 2.5 In and you need to legal expert to remix the content with another pic which has CC-By-Sa 3.0 generic. One must need to study and understand these things. Software industry and Content Industry is altogether is different things. Software has binary to hide source code. Content, source is every open. even if you make something public, then worst thing which will happen that somebody will include into some book and put his copyright notice on it. But who cares ! The motive is solved. your work is always available to reuse. remixing public domain is much much (infinite times) simpler then remix CC licensed. If somebody can make money on your public content then others will be able to make money and this process will give the minimum price. Even Wiki has made a bad decision to make its contents under CC domain. Can somebody give me print out of wikipedia article on FOSS in 5 minute given that he has computer , Internet and Printer. The moment he take printout and give to me, He commit a Copyright infringement. He is redistributing me a article which is licensed under Cc-By-SA. while distributing he should give Attribution to all or atleast some author or give URL (it totally depends on copyright holder itself). infact long back I advocate that CC based licensed is not atall suitable for incremental remix of e-content. to solve the problem, I advocate for new license scheme which is like more or less *viral public domain* At the same time I do not have clear understanding on status of public domain in India. But *IF Public Money is invested into Govt project the Content must be available into Public Domain without any restriction* PS: I repeat, CC or GFDL may be good for bundled work which do not include collaboration because CC/GFDL resist collaboration. This is why some coder created this license scheme - http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/ Infact I stopped putting license wherever it is possible [Only for the E-content] PS: To know what I was proposed and didn;t get any attention - read here - http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-community/2010-January/005103.html http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-community/2010-January/005088.html -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya │ http://narendrasisodiya.com └─────────────────────────┘
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