On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 10:34:48PM +0200, natacha wrote:
I mean, new ideas and research could be appropriated by larger corporations that have way much more visibility than the more fragile critical thinking networks.
Yes. And a license will not stop them to do so. They've better lawyers and deeper pockets than any of us. (Aside: I personally refuse to use expressions like "appropriation" for non-rival goods.) In the meanwhile, the license choice you're advocating for will limit other totally legitimate circulations of our research work, that I'd personally love to see happen --- e.g., print on demand services of reformatted anthologies of scientific articles (derived work) in public libraries that want to charge for the price of the paper and add a tiny profit margin to make the service viable ("commercial" use). Given this trade-off, I'd take a Free Culture license any day. Your mileage my very, and that's totally fine. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . [email protected] . upsilon.cc/zack . . o . . . o . o Computer Science Professor . CTO Software Heritage . . . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader & OSI Board Director . . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »