There have been a longer ‘think tank’ period about how to deal with the ‘open sourceness’ of this project. After several discussions and longer considerations it looks like we have come to the following solution.
It seems like we go for the Creative Commons ‘Attribution-NonCommercial-Sha
Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
You are free:
- to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to Remix — to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
- Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
- Noncommercial — You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
- Share Alike — If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.
With the understanding that:
- Waiver — Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.
- Public Domain — Where the work or any of its elements is in the public domain under applicable law, that status is in no way affected by the license.
- Other Rights — In no way are any of the following rights affected by the license:
- Notice — For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. The best way to do this is with a link to this web page.
This means that I for all practical reasons have to be the ‘copyright holder’ since the license requires one person/legal entity to be that. I am planning to start a non-profit in Sweden that can take over this role eventually, but for now it will be me personally. This in turn will mean that all script collaborators (including me) in reality is donating their contributions to this project and are thus further accepting the above mentioned license.
I will include this in the ‘contribution rules and guidelines’ so that there will be no misunderstandings. It looks like everyone are ok with this, but here’s a last chance to state your opinion. As long as there are no major objections, I will implement this after 5 days from now. February 17. 2012 will be the last date with ‘all rights reserved’. :)
Harald Sandø
February 12, 2012 at 2:32 pm
The commercial restrictions of cc-by-nc(-sa) render a project non-free in the eyes of free content and software authorities.
Here’s one explanation from the standards, by which Wikipedia licensing is defined: freedomdefined.org/NC
February 13, 2012 at 12:08 am
Thanks for you input. I’ve read through the page, and it’s very interesting. There are still issues with removing the NC though. One is that this film is a non-profit venture about a moneyless/non-profit/non-commercial society, and thus any derivative work from this should also be non-commercial. The other is that I want this film to be able to reach as big an audience as possible, and we will need funding. Hopefully we can get that mainly from philanthropic sources. But if an investor comes along and offers us a substantial amount of money helping us finish this film, it would be a bummer if she/he turns us down because it is open to anyone to make money off of it. Or, maybe even worse, they simply take the finished script, makes a new movie with a different director/crew/etc. and shares non of it’s revenue with the originators (us). Or, even worser, they take the script and turn it into a violent future scenario and make a totally different film, but still based on this script, and there’s nothing we can do, because we allowed unrestricted commercial use of this script.
No, I think we have to admit that we still live in a somewhat predatory world, and take some precautions. The NC license that is suggested I think will help prevent the before mentioned scenarios. Besides, it will keep any new works from this non-profit. The link you mentioned doesn’t distinguish between non-commercial and non-profit. I’d say that it is basically the same, which means that if someone want to make another film from the Waking Up manuscript, that will be quite alright as long as any revenue from that film will also be spent creating the new free resource based world or go to some other beneficial cause for humanity. I think we are closer to achieving this in keeping the suggested license, rather than skipping the NC part. Actually, having the non-commercial part in also states what this is all about, which is a non-commercial world, a moneyless world, a resource based economy. And in this world, when it comes, commercial or non-commercial won’t even be an issue.
February 11, 2012 at 11:46 pm
The project takes another huge leap forward.
Thank you!