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| Are there differences between free software, free culture and free knowledge?
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| We seem to be basing the definitions on free software - but is there a point where the analogy does not quite hold? Or where we might need to take a stronger stand on copyleft (for example)?
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| The [http://creativecommons.org Creative Commons] (concerned with free culture) offers a range of licenses whose degrees of freedom vary, and there is a compatibility gap when we consider freedom to mix (key to free culture).
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| Derek Keats once explained this to me as follows:
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| Here are some CC licenses with most restrictive on the left, least restrictive on the right:
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| (C)----[BY-ND----NC----BY-SA----BY]----[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ PD]
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| Now imagine over this continuum above a skewed distribution "degree of freedom" peaking at "BY-SA".
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| For mixing content there is a compatibility gap:
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| (C)----[BY-ND----NC--|COMPATIBILITY GAP|--BY-SA----BY]----[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ PD].
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| Copyleft contributes a lot to the free culture goal.
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| Regarding free software we find [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#Non-CopyleftedFreeSoftware non-copylefted free software].
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| [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#PublicDomainSoftware Public domain software] is [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#Non-CopyleftedFreeSoftware non-copylefted free software] - "some copies or modified versions may not be free at all".
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| For culture it seems to make sense to have a continuum of Creative Commons licenses.
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| For software we have [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#FreeSoftware free] and [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#non-freeSoftware non-free] software and permit [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#Non-CopyleftedFreeSoftware non-copylefted free software] while preferring [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#CopyleftedSoftware CopyleftedSoftware] as it supports the goal of giving ''every'' user (now and in future) the freedoms implied by the term "free software".
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| Again, copyleft contributes much to the cause.
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| <small>(Though rms has recently confirmed that the free software definition does not (and ''should not'') ''require'' copyleft). </small> | |
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| For free knowledge, the intent is for the knowledge to be free/libre - that the users are free to re-use, build upon and share (alike?) any knowledge they gain from a knowledge resource. Public Domain and Attribution allow the next user to lock up the knowledge in a restrictive derived work.
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| Is there a case to elevate the status of copyleft? Is copyleft only needed on account of the inappropriate status of copyright in the networked world of blogging, wikis, ... - the global copy/mix/share read-write culture (where the role of publishers is not so crucial for knowledge dissemination)?
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| We need to protect and enhance the flow of resources into the commons.
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| [[User:Ktucker|Kim]] 12:03, 12 March 2007 (CET)
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| == Blog about freedom and intellectual properties issues == | |
| I've started a blog about some of this stuff
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| http://stealingfromthedrawer.blogspot.com/ | |
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| I'm not making money off this or anything, I'm just interested. I'd appreciate feedback either here or on the blog as to what you think of the points I'm bringing up. --[[User:Nerd42|Nerd42]] 20:57, 25 October 2007 (CEST)
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