[Gllug] The mozilla story

[Ryan Cartwright]

Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 18:26 +0100, Dani Pardo wrote:
> 
>>	Have you read this? Amazing.. :)
>>
>>http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-2051196,00.html
>>
> It's not that amazing at all. In fact it's a sad reflection on the
> levels of misunderstanding that exist out there about both the quality
> and purpose of free/open source software.
<snip>

This mis-understanding exists not just with software licencing. I 
recently published a case study of how we used FOSS here. I published it 
under a Creative Commons attrib-no-derivs licence. Somebody wanted to 
use it on their site and phoned me to ask if they could adapt/summarise 
it (apparently mine was too long). They said they were phoning to ask 
because I had "quite restrictive copyright" on it.

I pointed out that the CC licence was less restrictive than copyright 
and asked them to send me their proposed adaptations which I would then 
review. To this they said "oh - is *that* it?" :o)

cheers
Ryan
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