[Fedora-legal-list] Re: New blog post
On 10/07/2009 03:10 PM, Colby Hoke wrote: I understand all of that. I'm saying what if someone else cuts it up and each time he mentions developers, he suddenly says Nazis. (Yeah I went there, I'm just saying...) I tend to believe that the people who want to make disgusting and hateful remixes of our content will do so irregardless of our licensing model. By restricting derivative works, we merely prevent those with good and positive intentions from doing so. Or, to frame it another way, should we prevent people from making code changes to our software because they could turn the software into dangerous viruses or Nazi themed window managers? (Hey, you went there first.) ~spot ___ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legal-list
[Fedora-legal-list] Re: New blog post
On 10/08/2009 12:40 AM, Colby Hoke wrote:. For example, there was a remix of the Truth Happens video that was put in with some very questionable material. It was offensive. Due to the copyright (back then we used copyright), we were able to go after that video and, I assume, have it taken it down. If you allow people to create remixes, they will create some bad remixes but so what? I know of exactly one example of such a thing tnat that is one you are citing here, in how many years of Red Hat putting out videos like this? The example also shows that people who actually go about creating such bad remixes don't have a damn about copyright or licensing. They just will do it and I am pretty sure I can find a copy of that video regardless of what Red Hat does at this point. Look at this this way: Red Hat releases tens of thousands of lines of code and content (such as documentation or even fonts) under various free and open source licenses. It is possible and even likely that someone will add a bad patch to what Red Hat has released or even fork it on occasions. It doesn't negate the benefits at all. Rahul ___ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legal-list
