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Idea #10513: Integrate Creative Commons into the Ubuntu Desktop



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Written by climatewarrior the 30 Jun 08 at 14:47. Category: Multimedia.
Related to: Gnome. Status: New
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Ubuntu is Linux for human beings and it follows the principles of the Ubuntu philosophy. Creative Commons licenses also follow the principles of freedom and openness associated with Ubuntu. Maybe we should encourage the use of creative commons licenses in the Ubuntu desktop. I suggest we integrate creative commons licenses throughout the Ubuntu desktop so that more users become aware of them and so that it is easier for them to use the licenses.

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Gnome_Integration
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/GnomeMockUps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_commons

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Eldmannen wrote on the 30 Jun 08 at 15:20
It is kind of sickening with people that wants to put copyright on every little thing they do.

Most junk should be public domain anyways.

glotz wrote on the 30 Jun 08 at 18:11
Yea. I think the Linux kernel itself is one of the best examples of choosing a suitable license. When Linux decided to use GNU GPL Linux became a hit. Should he have gone e.g. with a proprietary license, probably none of use would have never heard about it.

Warbo wrote on the 1 Jul 08 at 18:48
Eldmannen: I don't know if there's any way to change the opinions of such people (so we'd better out-produce them into obscurity :P ).

I think, however, that there's a MASSIVE amount of stuff to be gained by the Public Domain or Free Culture commons to do with ignorance, lazyness, inability. What I mean is, people who don't know about, or don't care about or don't know how to change, the current restrict-everything-by-default copyright terms.

Where people don't know about the restrictive copyrights they have, perhaps informing them will get some of their stuff less restricted. Where people don't care about the license terms, why not make it trivially simple to make it freely licensed (since other people care)? For those who want to freely license their work, make it easy to do so (embedding license information in files, uploading to some kind of server, etc.). That's what I'm voting this idea up for.


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