drew Roberts wrote:
> On Monday 12 February 2007 07:24 pm, tomislav medak
wrote:
>>sorry for getting into this minor matter in the
license compatibility
>>thread, but hasn't the concern of conflation of
different licenses with
>>different degrees of freedom been addressed with the
new CC buttons that
>>indicate what license is being used? this really
does resolve the
>>well-founded critique that came from the free
software community.
>
> No, not really unless I missed something. What is
called for is a meta button
> that would to me cover BY and BY-SA licenses. It would
be nice if some
> support "areas" were set up by CC for this as
well. A Free CC list, etc.
>
> Certainly, license specific icons are a big improvement
over the generic
> icons.
What you are really looking for should not be through CC,
but through
someone new like:
http://freedomde
fined.org/Definition
who is specifically trying to address this "Free
Cultural Expression"
issue. There are two major advantages to this approach:
1) Unnecessary to fight against the existing damage to the
"Creative
Commons" brand.
2) Can also encompass the other free artistic licenses that
exist (CC
has made it clear that they don't want to do this).
The analogy is to the "Open Source Initiative"
which doesn't create
licenses, but only evaluates their "freeness".
Thus "OSI Approved" means
something very specific (and nearly the same thing as
"DFSG Free", by
the way).
Cheers,
Terry
--
Terry Hancock (hancock AnansiSpaceworks.com)
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpac
eworks.com
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