Submitted by webchick (not verified) on Thu, 05/14/2009 - 09:56.
People who want to take the hard work that others have done (even though it should all be burned to the ground, of course) and circumvent the license by which that work was contributed for their own gains:
tgeller: Does anyone here understand the Creative Commons License well? I want to use a graphic from the drupal.org handbooks in a corporate document, and am not sure whether that means (a) I just have to mention that it's under CCL in the credit, or (b) I have to include some big disclaimer text elsewhere. I also want to be sure it doesn't "infect" the rest of the document, which is traditionally copyrighted. Do you know, webchick?
webchick: tgeller, AFAIK the license links to the license text, no?
webchick: so read it, and do what it says. ;)
tgeller: webchick: It seems to say that it'll infect the resulting work... just hoping that someone can prove to me that it won't. ;)
webchick: tgeller, Hm. So you want someone to help you use a document someone created with their own volunteer time for you to make some money, and you want us to help you find a workaround? ;)
webchick: That doesn't seem like something we'd want to do. :P
tgeller: webchick -- I claim ignorance! That's my excuse, anyway.
This is absolutely offensive, and I sincerely hope someone stumbles across this and it gives them pause for sending any money your way.
People who want to take the hard work that others have done (even though it should all be burned to the ground, of course) and circumvent the license by which that work was contributed for their own gains:
tgeller: Does anyone here understand the Creative Commons License well? I want to use a graphic from the drupal.org handbooks in a corporate document, and am not sure whether that means (a) I just have to mention that it's under CCL in the credit, or (b) I have to include some big disclaimer text elsewhere. I also want to be sure it doesn't "infect" the rest of the document, which is traditionally copyrighted. Do you know, webchick?
webchick: tgeller, AFAIK the license links to the license text, no?
webchick: so read it, and do what it says. ;)
tgeller: webchick: It seems to say that it'll infect the resulting work... just hoping that someone can prove to me that it won't. ;)
webchick: tgeller, Hm. So you want someone to help you use a document someone created with their own volunteer time for you to make some money, and you want us to help you find a workaround? ;)
webchick: That doesn't seem like something we'd want to do. :P
tgeller: webchick -- I claim ignorance! That's my excuse, anyway.
This is absolutely offensive, and I sincerely hope someone stumbles across this and it gives them pause for sending any money your way.