[PD] open source Pd workshops

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> Well, it would be good to have some reasons, because as far as I know, 
> the CC ShareAlike license would fit this very well.  We could also just 
> GPL and call it a day, but there seems to be reasons to not GPL docs, 
> which I don't really know.   

It's more a feeling thing. I don't like that CC provides so many
licenses some of which I wouldn't call "free" licenses. Now even a
sampling license was written, a translation license will follow and so
on. This is so lawyerish. And I just stumbled accross this text: 

http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/print/0,17925,608619,00.html

which unintentionally captures all my reservations against CC: It says
	
  "Yet if Creative Commons is successful, sharing will become even
  more pervasive. And a lot more money will be made along the way."

I have the feeling, that CC is in fact about exactly this: Somehow
find a new big-business-model for a world where lossless digital
copies already are common (sic!). 

I like, that the FSF always was not so much about business models but
held to that ethics goal of a more free society (for programmers). 

I hope it's becoming clear, that this isn't a rational or legally
correct descicion, but about a bad feeling I have with CC. It wouldn't
stop me from providing content for a community project like that --
provided one of the free CC licenses is chosen, that is: Commercial
use must be allowed. Also I would insist on ShareAlike.

Ciao
-- 
 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__