Hi,
On 06/17/11 16:35, John Smith wrote:
I am trying to make a general point about the scope of CC licenses, to which
the "patents" example is relevant.
Do you or do you not agree, that if a picture describing a patent is made
available under CC-BY-SA (and NOT CC-BY-ND), one's ability to implement the
procedure described in the picture, and thereby create a derivative work of
the picture, would be limited?
There is 4 types of IP law (5 in the EU with the 5th being DB
directive), contract, patent, copyright, trademarks. You can't apply
patents laws against copyright and vice versa, so no you are wrong on
this matter, or it's a very very poor example.
I am not trying to apply patents to OSM. I am trying to use the example
of patents to prove to you that your reasoning "either something is
CC-BY-SA or it isn't" is, in this simplicity, invalid; that there may
well exist limitations external to the license that limit what you can
or cannot do with the CC-BY-SA licensed entity.
Once you accept that, I can continue my argument; but if you try to hold
on to the simplistic "either something is CC-BY-SA or it isn't"
assumption then it makes no sense.
Bye
Frederik
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