Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Well, it would be good to have some reasons, because as far as I know, the CC ShareAlike license would fit this very well. We could also just GPL and call it a day, but there seems to be reasons to not GPL docs, which I don't really know.
It's more a feeling thing. I don't like that CC provides so many licenses some of which I wouldn't call "free" licenses. Now even a sampling license was written, a translation license will follow and so on. This is so lawyerish. And I just stumbled accross this text:
http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/print/0,17925,608619,00.html
which unintentionally captures all my reservations against CC: It says
"Yet if Creative Commons is successful, sharing will become even
more pervasive. And a lot more money will be made along the way."
I have the feeling, that CC is in fact about exactly this: Somehow find a new big-business-model for a world where lossless digital copies already are common (sic!).
I like, that the FSF always was not so much about business models but held to that ethics goal of a more free society (for programmers).
I hope it's becoming clear, that this isn't a rational or legally correct descicion, but about a bad feeling I have with CC. It wouldn't stop me from providing content for a community project like that -- provided one of the free CC licenses is chosen, that is: Commercial use must be allowed. Also I would insist on ShareAlike.
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__