Hi Yoni, To give your point a little more clarity: You are simply saying that you don't understand the value of making direct derivatives culturally (versus just inspired works). It's fine to say that. Perhaps you are not a really dedicated creative artist like Nina Paley or a seriously dedicated musician or author.
I suggest you check out http://everythingisaremix.info/ If you really want to understand more, maybe read the imperfect but largely wonderful full book Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig http://free-culture.cc/freecontent/ To avoid ranting further, I'll briefly wrap this up. The fact that you don't personally understand the great works that cannot happen because of ND or all-rights-reserved restrictions just shows that you, one person, can't understand everything. I am a guitar teacher. I would like to create a major improvement to educational materials using the best resources and reference to hundreds of culturally-relevant songs that would inspire students. Copyright and ND terms block my ability to do this. I could go on. Please trust me, we are greatly lacking all sorts of important value and work in our society because of these restrictions. Respectfully, Aaron On 05/15/2015 09:03 PM, Yoni Rabkin wrote: > Logan Streondj <streo...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 05:27:18PM -0400, Yoni Rabkin wrote: >>> Aaron Wolf <wolft...@riseup.net> writes: >>> >>>> Why the incredible desire to use existing source code? Why not use the >>>> wasted time and efforts spent arguing about this reverse engineering >>>> your software and just be done with it. … >>> >>> Because works of personal opinion are different than useful software. >>> >>> -- >>> "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice" >> >> works of personal opinion can be software with a speakable >> programming language. :-D >> >> In fact, works of opinion are used to program humans, >> which have more processing power than at least most computers, >> possibly than any computer thus far created. >> >> So in a way you could say, works of opinion, are extremely >> powerful pieces of software. > > I license my own blog under CC-BY-SA but I don't see, so far, a concrete > problem with the FSF licensing essays on the site with ND. > > I think that a powerful argument would be if someone created something > real: the GCC of essays if you will. Then point the FSF at that and say: > "See, this wonderful thing is what you are not allowing me to > release. Please change the the ND license on those essays so that the > whole free software community can benefit from my work." > > But I don't know what that would be. If I did, then I would probably > appreciate the point being made about why ND is bad in this context. > -- Aaron Wolf co-founder, Snowdrift.coop music teacher, wolftune.com