Re: a free letter to cultural institutions

2014-06-16 Thread Aymeric Mansoux
Florian Cramer said : > > I'd be very interested to hear why a punk band wouldn't want to release > > music under a free license. > > For example, because it doesn't want - for political reasons - its music to > end up on Spotify, Google or similar corporate services, against which free > license

Re: a free letter to cultural institutions

2014-06-16 Thread Jaromil
On Sat, 14 Jun 2014, Florian Cramer wrote: > The punk band example is relatively harmless. For software > developers, any kind of free license (free according to the criteria > of FSF and Debian, respectively Open Source according to the OSI > criteria) gives no whatsoever means to prevent that th

Re: a free letter to cultural institutions

2014-06-16 Thread Jaromil
On Sat, 14 Jun 2014, Florian Cramer wrote: > The punk band example is relatively harmless. For software > developers, any kind of free license (free according to the criteria > of FSF and Debian, respectively Open Source according to the OSI > criteria) gives no whatsoever means to prevent that t

Re: a free letter to cultural institutions

2014-06-16 Thread morlockelloi
It seems that there is disconnection here: terms market, art, labour, culture, production, demand, reward are cherry-picked to prove this or that point, throwing them as needed in disjunct contexts. From a purely 'market' PoV, there are: (1) a limited (as in not infinite) cash-supported dema