On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Chris Cormack <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4 November 2011 10:56, Mike Rylander <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hmm playing devils advocate, do you think they will respect the NC >>> clause any more than they respected by BY-SA ? >>> >> >> That's a point that was raised, and I think that the point has merit >> -- some that would avoid attributing a BY-SA work won't respect NC -- >> but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't state our intentions and >> desires explicitly. The analogy that comes to mind is leaving your >> front door unlocked and open when you go on vacation. The door being >> open doesn't excuse burglars from coming in and taking your TV, but >> you bear some responsibility for not taking common-sense steps to >> avoid the theft. >> > Right, so to be totally clear, the NC is there to explicitly restrict > commercial (as fuzzy as that is) use without your prior permission, > and the issue is not at all to do with lack of attribution? >
Oh, it's not that we don't care about lack of attribution -- I was intentionally vague (and will continue to be) about the set of situations that prompted this. But, to answer the more hairy (fuzzy?) part of your question, we would rather restrict commercial reuse by those who are not active participants within the community -- we see NC (with waivers) as a stick (as in, a complement to a carrot) to protect work so that it benefits the community primarily. For example, a waiver of NC to the DIG as I mentioned up-thread would cascade through the official documentation, of course, but would primarily benefit the community before commercial interests. Or, that is the theory -- we're trying to protect ourselves by being unambiguous up front, and to serve the community both by working with active participants to make sure the resources we produce are useful and available and that the community benefits primarily and first. I hope that makes sense, and doesn't sound completely crazy and off-base. -- Mike Rylander | Director of Research and Development | Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) | email: [email protected] | web: http://www.esilibrary.com _______________________________________________ OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION mailing list [email protected] http://list.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-documentation
