Mike Linksvayer of the Creative Commons
Software Freedom Law Show episode 0x1A
Bradley and Karen interview Mike Linksvayer of the Creative Commons .
Running time: 00:49:21.Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:28)
- Bradley and Karen discuss whether 0x1A is a “landmark” in hex. (01:00)
- Dan Lynch, SFLS Producer, is a host of Linux Outlaws. (02:25)
- Bradley quoted Larry Wall from one of his 1999 State of the Onion speech. (03:45)
Segment 1 (05:48)
- Our guest is Mike Linksvayer of the Creative Commons. (06:05)
- Mike is the
longest serving employee
of Creative Commons. (06:56) - CC-by-SA is the most popular Creative Commons license with the software freedom crowd. (13:40)
- CC-Attribution is another license type that Mike mentioned (14:00)
- Mike quoted from various sections of CC-by-SA to make the point that there are methods to avoid misrepresentation (19:15)
- Mike pointed out fair use can even be used to misrepresent a person's views, so prohibiting derivative works for that purpose sometimes doesn't even help. (24:00)
- Mike, Bradley, and Karen discussed the Wikipedia move from FDL to CC-By-SA. Mike pointed out that a “one magnet” need in copyleft. (26:12)
- Mike mentioned that the Fedora project recently switched to CC-By-SA for their documentation and wikis. (27:17)
- Mike, Bradley and Karen discussed issues related to autonomo.us. (33:00)
Segment 2 (38:47)
- Mike and Karen will follow up to discuss whether CC-By-SA would be a better license for the Software Freedom Law Show or other works by lawyers. (39:20)
- Bradley changed the license of his website to CC-By-SA. (40:10)
- Bradley and Karen discussed identi.ca. (42:00)
- Donald Knuth organized his kitchen around the trash can. (46:00)