Re: [Trisquel-users] Question about Free GNU/Linux distributions

[jason]

"Only artists wants to modify artistic works, not  
readers/listeners/spectators/hairdressers."
This creates a distinction where none exists and I think feeds back into some  
of the other things you said. Every person in free software is a potential  
developer. Every person reading or listening is a potential artist. Everyone  
deserves the same rights as everyone else.

"Part 2: I do not get your point."
That much seems clear. I suspect that you're thinking of this free culture  
stuff only from one perspective where one person goes and makes a thing but  
that isn't at all how it works. In the free culture world anyone can make  
anything and anyone else can re-use it. So you must also factor in those that  
are re-using stuff made by others. And in this part I'm talking of why  
commercial use needs to be allowed in that particular scenario. Remember that  
I'm addressing the matter of why free culture things must allow commercial  
use when others are re-using them. Imagine a world where things were licensed  
only for non-commercial use but otherwise permitted the remaining freedoms.  
Someone else would be able to take things and re-use them in various ways on  
a non-commercial basis. But in doing this free culture remains on the  
sidelines. This is because the person re-using stuff (Mimi and Eunice in my  
example) has a rent to pay each month but can't afford to leave their job and  
work on free culture things where they're re-using other things because the  
permissions that they get are on a non-commercial basis, and so: No money  
comes in. With no money they cannot pay their rent, get evicted, and become  
homeless. Or the more likely scenario is that they don't ever leave their job  
in the first place and continue with working on this stuff on the nights and  
weekends. And, as a result, free culture remains sidelined because people  
(unless they're some how independently wealthy and can somehow continue to  
survive without a job) can't afford to leave their job and work on free  
culture stuff full time. The example of Mimi and Euince was only a concrete  
example of the previous, like if say I decided to take up making new episodes  
for money. My making of money from Mimi & Eunice would not harm Nina at all  
so there's no need for it to be under a non-commercial license.