24 Mar
2010
24 Mar
'10
11:20 p.m.
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Sam Johnston <samj@samj.net> wrote:
Mine too - if you can't reuse/remix the work then it's not free enough.
The ability to remix a standard seems an essential freedom: if a standard becomes too complex or encumbered by patents then this is the only way to save parts of it. That's why for Digistan we defined[1] the ability to fork a standard under a share-alike license as a necessary aspect. We chose the GPLv3 mainly because it includes some safeguards against software patents, which CC does not. -Pieter [1] http://www.digistan.org/text:rationale#toc6