Re: [Trisquel-users] Proposed Project: GOLD - Gaming on Linux Distribution

[strypey]

If those commenting here are really keen to understand the ins and outs of CC  
licensing, I highly recommend getting involved in the community consultation  
for the next version of the licenses. These involve users of CC licenses from  
different communities based on artistic, governmental, GLAM (Gallery,  
Library, Archive, Museum), educational, and many other communities of  
practice. The discussion are certainly informed by free/ libre/ "open"  
values, but they mainly revolve around real world use cases. There was a  
proposal in the 4.0 consultation to drop all the NC and ND clauses, which I  
supported, but the majority of the community concluded that this would be  
more likely to drive people back to ARR copyright, than to the free culture  
CC licenses.

If we are going to apply the same standards to artwork that we apply to  
software, almost no art is libre, because editable source files are almost  
never made available. The question is not; are licenses with NC and ND  
clauses ideal. No, they're not, but they exist, and for a range of  
complicated reasons, many people use them. The question is; are they  
ethically acceptable in a free system distribution? Debian says no. I  
disagree.