On Monday 30 October 2006 09:48 am, Jörg Zastrau wrote:
> first some OT:
>
snip...
>
> back on topic...
>
> > [Greg]
> > I think that the thing to keep in mind here is
> > that people who distribute FLOSS works will
> > not look at this as an opportunity for a
> > frivolous lawsuit.
>
> well said - in theory. Two points:
> - The parties tend to read the license literally in
case of a dispute
> - and so do people who like to exploit the work of
others disregarding
> the intent
>
> so the plain language of the license has to reflect its
intentions.
> The license is broken if it is ambiguous.
Plus, something I thought of this morning. There may be mal
intentioned
players out there who would like to do harm to CC in general
and take this
exact route to do so.
>
> > [drew]
> > I am interested in discussing this further
> > as it seems a bit like the question of whether it
is OK for me to have my
> > personal staff (who are on my payroll) download NC
works to my devices
> > for my later use.
>
> hm... I thought about it and I could come up with all
kind of special
> cases. It basically boils down to the problem to
distinguish between
> "good" and "bad" DRM-usage if the
end user happens to own a DRM
> device. You'll open a can of worms if you try and this
is what
> happened. I still believe that the parallel
distribution approach
> would be cleaner. From what I read on the mailing list
there are
> people that feel this doesn't discourage people enough
from using DRM.
The problem some have with the parallel distribution
approach is not that it
doesn't discourage people enough from using DRM, but that
it can lead to
"platform monopolies" so to me, the trick is to
find language that will allow
DRM that can't lead to platform monopolies and DRM that can.
I don't mind
parallel distribution for the former, but I object to it in
the latter. IIRC,
some feel it is not needed and redundant if the former case.
>
> Now, does the current language of the draft restrict me
(assuming I am
> not evil)?
>
> > [Peter]
> > To "distribute" is to make a work
available to the general public.
> > Copying is not distribution.
Is this a feature or a bug? How does this line up with how
the GPL handles it
for programs?
all the best,
drew
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