Dear Karen, I am hereby asking you to consider relicensing the content of http://learn.perl.org/ and other perl.org sites, which is currently under the restrictive Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial NonDerivatives licence ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ ) under a less restrictive licence, to allow for maximum reuse, redistribution and building upon, which in turn will help promote the Perl 5 and Perl 6 programming language and ecosystem.
I do not know what the reasons were for choosing CC-by-nc-nd out of all the Creative Commons licences, but it is prohibitive for reusing the content of the Perl sites. As an anecdote, I was told that the Israeli government releases its photos under a very restrictive (All Rights Reserved) licence, because they are afraid people will misuse them. And guess what? People don't misuse them, but they don't use them either. On the other hand, Al Jazeera releases its photos under CC-by and as a result they are featured all over the Internet and beyond, which really contributes to anti-Israeli advocacy. If the distinguished members of the advocacy@perl.org mailing list (CCed to this message) agree with this, I am asking them to at least reply with a "+1". If they disagree, please say so. (I've made a similar request in a previous context, but it was as part of a larger request.). There are some very large sites that are under CC-by or CC-by-sa and they only seem to benefit from it: * http://www.wikimedia.org/ * http://www.wikia.com/ * http://stackoverflow.com/ | http://stackexchange.com/ Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ List of Text Editors and IDEs - http://shlom.in/IDEs Larry Wall’s pure‐Perl code is faster than Assembly. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
