[add-art dev] license

Michael Mandiberg mandiberg at gmail.com
Sat Jan 17 10:33:27 PST 2009


I'm also uneasy w/ the doritos maneuver

is there a GPL version of CC+, where you reserve the rights to assign  
commercial use on a case by case basis?

m


On Jan 16, 2009, at 11:54 PM, Steve Lambert wrote:

> 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)
>>
>> -jamie
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