[freeroleplay] Re: Creative Commons (was Re: WikiRPG)
- From: Ricardo Gladwell <president@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: freeroleplay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 16:12:58 +0000
Samuel Penn wrote:
> I think (IANAL) that if you choose to allow the above three,
> plus enforce 'share alike' (people must use the same license),
> it becomes very GPL-like. Whether this makes it GPL compatible
> or not I'm not sure.
I think the Share-Alike CCPL is the license closest to the GPL. However,
I'm really more interested in whether the CCPL is "free" as we define it.
> One thing I do like - it's got some meta data tags for sticking
> into web pages, plus human readable and lawyer readable versions
> of each version of the license (it also has this for the GPL,
> Public Domain and other licenses). It also has a nifty form
> for selecting the options you want:
Yes, the licensing meta-tags are highly useful and I can see many
potential uses for them, particularly for us (sticking these tags into
OO.org files for example). Its a shame they have not been more widely
adopted.
> One thing I do like (and what got me thinking about using it in
> the first place) is that there's a UK version designed with
> wording for UK law. Not sure what the differences are between
> US and UK laws in this regard though.
AFAIK, there is no specific version of teh CCPL for the UK, but there
are for other countries, such as Germany, where copyright lay is
slightly different.
Actually, I believe others have criticised the CCPL because it has
seperate versions of its license for different countries with different
terms for each. The argument going is that it increases the complexity
of re-using the license and makes it unclear whether the various
national licenses are compatible.
BTW, my letter has been posted on the general CC licenses mailing list here:
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-licenses/2004-November/001311.html
The following thread (previously posted) is a discussion on just this
topic on debian-legal:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/03/threads.html#00267
Kind regards...
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Ricardo Gladwell
President, Free Roleplaying Community
http://www.freeroleplay.org/
president@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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