Screencasts & Creative Commons

[Matthew East]

Hi Daniel,

On Fri, January 26, 2007 12:06 pm, Daniel Goldsmith wrote:
> Why are the screencasts being licenced Creative Commons BY-SA?
{snip}
> What specific benefits
> are there to using this over the alternatives?

Although the CC-by-sa license was chosen before the screencast project
became an "official" part of the Ubuntu community, it's the perfect
license for us because it allows close integration with the Ubuntu
Documentation (which is licensed CC-by-sa) and the Documentation wiki
(which will be licensed CC-by-sa).

> CC isn't 'Free' in the FSF-Free/Libre Sense, and it isn't Open in the
> OSI/OpenSource sense. This places it outside the Ubuntu Philosophy[1],
> unless I've missed something entirely. Note that I don't want to spark
> a debian-legal type mess, I'm just curious.

It's free enough for us. It has the two main features we want - copyleft
and attribution. It's a very popular license with both Canonical and
Ubuntu in general.

Matt
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