[Open-access] Green Gold Gratis Libre

Peter Murray-Rust pm286 at cam.ac.uk
Fri Feb 24 15:23:16 UTC 2012


On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 2:15 PM, cameronneylon.net <cn at cameronneylon.net>wrote:

>
> > (We probably don't want to get into discussing CC-BY-SA, since there
> > are validly differing opinions on where that is more or less free than
> > CC-BY, just as people disagree over whether the GNU GPL or Modified
> > BSD licence is more free for software.)
>
> Strictly speaking if we're focussed on BOAI this point is moot as the BOAI
> specifies CC-BY (as does the Open Source Definition). One of the things
> that's worrying me is the conflation of BOAI and OKD which are actually
> different on this point. As Mike says, we probably don't want to start that
> argument up again (I'm right, you're all wrong, clearly) but we should
> probably be clear about this. For me BOAI-compliant is pretty clear.
>

I agree. BOAI is OKD-compliant so it's quite acceptable to use the OKF
facilities for the discussion, pages etc (and thanks).

I get tired of writing BOAI-compliant - is there a shorter form like
BOAI-OK?

P.


>
> Cheers
>
> Cameron
>
>
>
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