From: Chad Perrin Date: 2007-03-31T15:05:00+09:00 Subject: Re: New presentation on Ruby On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 01:54:51PM +0900, Gregory Brown wrote: > On 3/30/07, Chad Perrin wrote: > >On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 11:52:21AM +0900, Gregory Brown wrote: > >> > >> Standard licensing choices are better. Ellie, is this what you're > >looking > >> for? > >> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ > > > >Most likely, one would choose the attribution/share-alike, rather than > >simply a pure attribution license. The difference is that with a share- > >alike license, the terms (in this case, attribution) are inherited by > >all derivative works, while with the "pure" attribution license that is > >not necessarily the case. The link: > > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ > > If you read up in the thread I already recommended this. I was just > offering an alternative to writing your own license if all you want is > attribution and indemnification. I wasn't referring to writing your own license. The attribution/share- alike license is a standard CC license, as indicated at the URL I provided. > > >I personally had some issues with the by-sa (attribution/share-alike) > >license, related to weird prohibitions against technical means of > >controlling copying and so on. That was part of the reason that I > >eventually created my own license -- one that I pretty much use for > >everything I do, as long as it wasn't commissioned by someone with > >assignment of copyright stipulated in the conditions of the contract. > > Bad idea for community friendly projects. I don't want to learn your > license if there is a standard license I can live with, that other > people will be likely to understand, too. Good for you. 1. I tend to dual-license whenever anyone really wants it. 2. I choose the license I do specifically because I often don't care to "live with" other extant licenses. It wasn't a capricious decision. It was a decision born of frustration. In any case, the license I created was designed with simplicity in mind -- and if you can get along with Creative Common license term legal text (byzantine and stilted phrasing) then you'll have no problem with what I use. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Leon Festinger: "A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts and figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point."