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RMS uses CC licenceRMS uses CC licencePosted Jun 11, 2008 10:48 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (guest, #7544)Parent article: Stallman attacks Oyster's 'unethical' use of Linux (ZDNet)
He's used the Creative Commons "noderivs" licence for his email instead of his usual one-line "verbatim only" licence. Interesting since this is the sort of decision he usually doesn't take lightly.
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RMS uses CC licence Posted Jun 12, 2008 2:46 UTC (Thu) by slef (subscriber, #14720) [Link] I wonder if it was an attempt to avoid ZDNet making an article out of (mis?)interpreting the email... which is exactly what happened. I guess ZDNet would argue that they can ignore the copyright terms for the purpose of reporting current affairs. That, or maybe RMS hates ZDNet and wanted them to read the shedload of legalese that is CC, or something else entirely.
RMS uses CC licence Posted Jun 12, 2008 6:26 UTC (Thu) by lysse (guest, #3190) [Link] I suspect its aim was to prevent them from only quoting the email, without releasing it in full. In fact, under UK copyright law, it appears that s30(1) of the CDPA 1988 already provides such protection - quotation from a work is valid for the purposes of criticism or review, provided that the work is already available to the public - so whilst they had to release the email before they could quote from it in any case, they aren't prevented from doing a hackjob on it (although having read the article, I wonder how much of it is intentional distortion and how much is simply that the journalist was too lazy to read and understand the whole email and wrote his article after just skimming the first half - ever noticed how much easier it seems to be for people in general to travel an absurd distance to support their malformed first impressions than it is for them to admit their misjudgement? I've certainly done it at times).
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