[add-art dev] license

[k muldoon]

hi all,

i'm an artist and hoping to someday curatie some images on add art, which
i absolutely LOVE.  meanwhile i am just enjoying the concept every day! 

imho, if everyone in the world used add art, it'd be a great thing... EVEN IF
doritos sold a few more bags o' chips in the process.  

but it'd be a really BAD thing if one more avenue for seeing REAL art was 
co-opted by the corporate machine, which tends to co-opt the channels 
of art distribution, clogging them with commercially motivated "creative 
content" which only disengages people from actual art.

so, how to stay open to the first whilst protecting from the second?  that's
the challenge, i think.

k


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From: steve at visitsteve.com
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:54:43 -0500
To: supperclub at lists.add-art.org
Subject: Re: [add-art dev] license


I'm not firm on anything and can definitely be swayed. In fact, I totally defer to the majority on this.  I'd just be reluctant if someday it meant we handed over a bunch of R&D based on enthusiasm and goodwill to Nabisco for some bullshit project they could put $$$ of promotion behind.  
I am admittedly spooked by the Doritos thing.  Being confronted by it (even though it was a spec piece in the end) was a little unsettling.
But I probably never wrote anything down because I was avoiding a decision.  We can talk about this today I suppose.  And again, if I am the sole dissenter I will get behind whatever y'all think.
 Steve
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On Jan 16, 2009, at 4:18 PM, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:* do we care if people use this code to build something commercial No problem.  Go make money 
Steve mentioned concern about something like that Doritos add-art fork over IM yesterday
IMHO open source means the freedom to do whatever you'd like, and I don't have a problem with a commercialish fork of AA. But I don't run something called the Anti-Advertising Agency ;)
I wonder if there is prior work on this kind of restrictive license? I've never heard of one that prevents commercialization (beyond CC, which they don't recommend for software).
Honestly it might be fun to do Just Cuz, and to help others in the future who might want such a license, like GRL's Laser Tag (which has a strict "no advertisers" clause)
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