On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 09:43:45AM +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
On 10/15/2009 08:05 PM, Colby Hoke wrote:
>Pamela Chestek wrote:
>>Okay, we heard (thanks Rahul and Colby). Going forward, Red Hat videos
>>will provide contact information for permissions, so people who want
>>to use our videos in ways other than what the current CC licensing
>>allows will know who to ask. For now, if you're interested in doing
>>translations of Paul's stunning Stanislavskian performance
>>illustrating the development path of software (or using it in some
>>other way - the devil is whispering on my shoulder), write to
>>messer(a)redhat.com.
>
>Hey everybody, I'd love to hear some feedback on this and we'll make
>announcements through Paul for videos relating to Fedora where we're
>granting extra rights. (Or you'll be able to look at the end of the
>video and know.)
All the benefit of CC licenses over the traditional model was that
the user does not need to ask the author for permission.
Having a restrictive CC license and asking to user to send emails to
require a permissive one seems a bit like returning to step one. Why
bother with NC-ND?
Nicu,
While I think you're partly correct in that this change isn't quite
what some people were asking for, I also think it's a step forward.
The change has essentially been:
"Can we remix this non-commercially?"
"No."
"What about now?"
"Maybe, and here's the person to ask about that."
Saying this is a step backward because you now have to ask a question
obfuscates the point a bit. :-) Not having to ask would be helpful,
but not having the *opportunity* to ask is definitely the step back.
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