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14 March 2021/cpj
I read a flight log a while back, by sloum, in which he was discussing a perspective that Creative Commons licences, CC-BY-NC-SA (attribution, non-commercial, and share alike) wasn't as free as CC-BY-SA.
I've been thinking a lot about this. (And reading far more RMS than I would like.)
Full disclosure, I used to be a software developer. (In the sense that I made my living crafting and selling custom software -- mostly database management and remote monitoring systems.) And while I am a proponent of Free (Libre) software, and nowadays release all of my source code, somewhat reflexively, I admit to some consternation at the thought of someone taking my code, which I have released for the good of all, and commercializing it.
Now, logically, in a de minimis situation, does it really matter if someone takes a portion (or all) of my code, or my writings, and publishes for profit? In theory, according to the CC-SA (share alike) doctrine, I could turn around, take their entire corpus, market, and sell it myself provided I too abided by CC-SA. But where does *that* end? Are we talking revenge-code, at this point?
Is my capacity to not self-injure protected by CC-SA, in that CC-NC is redundant? In my day job, I have only an undisputed right to attribution, which is fine, because my day job includes compensation for my creative contributions. In the CC world, particularly on the smol internet, do I suffer reputational damage when my code or my thoughts are absconded with, even if, or provided that, they are wrapped in a CC-SA buffer? Is this truly damnum absque injuria?
I've set up cron to auto-post gemini flight logs, and where the log is uniquely date-coded, copy to gopher. If the log ID is alpha-numeric (date + qualifier), it stays in gemini.
On verra bien.