On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 at 10:07, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
> > I imagine that moral rights could be useful in the open source world. > It's the most slippery of slopes but IMO a non-issue. Consider the biggest philosophical difference between the open-source/free-software worlds and the Creative Commons world. Both the open source definition <https://opensource.org/osd> and the FSF four freedoms <https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html> explicitly disclaim restrictions on how code is used so long as the appropriate copying/sharing provisions are maintained. Thus the mainly (but not exclusively) European concept of "authors rights <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors%27_rights>" would be extremely difficult to assert and would likely be seen within the broader community in the same light as someone trying to embed patented code inside a FOSS project. By contrast, by far the most-implemented clause in Creative Commons licenses is "no commercial use". To me, this is a fatal flaw in CC and why it will never really take off, in contrast to open source which is already mainstream. CC people are obsessed with their work being abused or that someone other than the original author would profit from a work, a completely different ethos from that behind FOSS. -- Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada @evanleibovitch or @el56
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