[okfn-discuss] Draft for 'Public copyright license'

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Chris Sakkas <sanglorian at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> A few months ago I drafted the Libre page for Wikipedia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libre>and folks at the OKFN and free culture discussion lists gave me some great
> feedback.
>
> I think this is a good overview. "Open Access" is extremely difficult
because Harnad/Suber propose "libre"  in a way that cannot be operationally
defined. Very simply most HS "libre" is not libre in the mainstream sense.
I personally feel that this is the destruction of a really useful term into
something that is at best politically fuzzy. Whatever happens to this page
it must make it clear that OA-libre is not de facto libre.

I've just written a draft entry for public copyright licenses and I'd
> appreciate your feedback. It's not much more than a stub at this stage—and
> I'm not sure that there's any need for it to be any more than that. I do
> think it's important to have *something *there, since we already have a
> category for public copyright licences. I'd love to hear your
> feedback—whether it's on these mailing lists, or on my talk page<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Sanglorian/sandbox>,
> or even just you editing the draft entry, which is on my sandbox<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sanglorian/sandbox>
> .
>
> Looking forward to your suggestions,
>
> *Chris Sakkas
> **Admin of the FOSsil Bank wiki <http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/> and the Living
> Libre blog <http://www.livinglibre.com> and Twitter feed<https://twitter.com/#%21/living_libre>
> .*
>
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Peter Murray-Rust
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Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
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