[Open-access] Green Gold Gratis Libre

Fri Feb 24 15:35:25 UTC 2012

We could avoid some trouble with OA and libre definitions if we accept
the simple slogan "Make all research results CC-BY (and the data
CC0)!"

"We need TRUE libre OA and this means CC-BY"

"BBB-compliant is only CC-BY"

Klaus Graf

2012/2/24 Mike Taylor <mike at indexdata.com>:
> On 24 February 2012 15:18, Klaus Graf <klausgraf at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>> Yes.  It might be worth making the point that CC-BY is a libre licence
>>>> (the canonical one, really) whereas CC-BY-NC is merely a gratis
>>>> licence.
>>>
>>> Agreed. This is an excellent division
>>
>> This is the sort of confusion which makes us to an OA sect.
>
> While I am not sure exactly what Klaus means by that last statement, I
> do have to say that I agree that I mistaken in equating CC-BY with
> libre and CC-BY-NC with gratis.  Suber's post explicitly says that he
> considers CC-BY-NC to be a libre licence -- merely not the most
> liberal.  It's unfortunate, but there it is.
>
> To summarise:
>        CC => libre (to some degree)
>        CC-BY => BBB
>
> I think that is all we can confidently say.
>
> -- Mike.