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@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > >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. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
