[okfn-discuss] Draft of 'Libre' Wikipedia page

Thu Mar 8 19:55:48 UTC 2012

Thanks folks!

Rob:

I've kept OER and OA quarantined under the 'Related concepts' heading to
make it clear that while there's overlap they're not libre
in-and-of-themselves.

I use 'proprietary' to mean 'non-libre', which would mean that NC and ND
are proprietary - are you using a different definition?

Cheers,

Chris

*Chris Sakkas
**Admin of the FOSsil Bank wiki <http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/> and the
Living Libre blog and microblog <https://twitter.com/#%21/living_libre>.*

On 6 March 2012 00:00, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:

> On 05/03/12 09:37, Chris Sakkas wrote:
> >
> > But meanwhile I was inspired to return to a Wikipedia article I drafted
> > last year: 'Libre'. I think libre warrants a separate article (It's
> > currently at 'Gratis versus Libre'), and you can read what I've written
> > so far at my sandbox page
> > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sanglorian/sandbox)
> >
> > Feel free to contribute, either by editing my sandbox directly or by
> > discussing the article on this mailing list.
>
> The article is very clearly written and well sourced.
>
> I agree that the term "intellectual property" should be avoided.
>
> Concepts that have been identified as potentially including non-free
> works in this discussion (such as OA/OER/Open Content) should not be
> included as sub-categories or types of Libre, which I would argue is
> used specifically within discussion of Free Software as a synonym for
> OSD-Free.
>
> NC/ND are not proprietary, they are non-free because they do not fit the
> common definitions of "Free" or "Open" (FSD/DFSG/OSD/Freedom
> Defined/Open Definition). Within the terms of reference of this
> discussion they are non-libre public licenses.
>
> These comments aside I recognize the article's description of Libre from
> my knoweldge of it, and the article has some very interesting references
> of which I was previously not aware.
>
> - Rob.
>
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