Re: opencontent.org dissolves and stalls its licenses

On Tuesday 01 July 2003 17:06, Florian Cramer wrote: > As a lecturer in the humanities and net activist who has been > evangelizing open content internationally in lectures, papers and as the > moderator of congress panels since 1999, I feel like being slapped into > my face. It is terrible if you

Re: opencontent.org dissolves and stalls its licenses

Florian, Francis, Tim, Heiko and everyone else When I first read this series of postings the lawyer (Heiko read "common law lawyer") in me asked himself why does someone have to maintain a licence?. All that is needed is that you use it. For this it just needs to be available. Simply because someo

Re: opencontent.org dissolves and stalls its licenses

Martin, > Anyway, Francis has suggested that Florian take up the maintenance of OC Think it is the same in common law, but the first thing that comes to mind from a continental point of view is that "content" is free anyway, topic of copyright law is the "form" in which the content is present

Re: opencontent.org dissolves and stalls its licenses

Florian, is there anything to prevent you or somebody else from taking up the OPL and maintaining it without David Wiley's involvement? So David Wiley doesn't think it's worth his time. Maybe there's somebody out there who does. Francis On Tuesday, July 1, 2003, at 11:06 AM, Florian Cramer wr

opencontent.org dissolves and stalls its licenses

As can be read on Slashdot and opencontent.org itself, www.opencontent.org, the site which in 1998 coined the concept of "Open Content" is about to dissolve. Its two popular licenses, the Open Content License