On 14/11/11 22:47, Eduardo Valle wrote: > Creative Commons is a NGO financed by Google (we are not evil :-))) and > HP , invented and promoted by a Prof of Law from Havard, > Larry Lessig.
Oh it's far worse than that. They were originally funded by Soros's OSI and have received donations from Microsoft. ;-) > The same University that costs 25.000 per semester for a student , in > Europe or in any other country of the world this will pay at least one > year of studies and in same cases all the masters course. Yes this is why I don't like educational institutions using Non-Commercial licences. > Some goverments are adopting this license without even think about, the > interests behind, who benefit from that ? The public. > Why the British goverment didnt accepted ? The UK Government wrote their vanity licence because the CC licences are not currently recommended for data (this should be fixed in next year's version 4 revisions), and the licence needed to be used for data such as maps and statistics. They did explicitly write it to be compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution licence, though. > Free Software, Free Culture - this terms should be rethinked it is like > Digital Culture - > > Are you free ? What is freedom ? In this context, free as in free speech. >Are we living under the digitalization of cultures instead of "digital >culture" ? Can you expand on that? It's sounds like a really important distinction. - Rob. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
