www/philosophy words-to-avoid.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       14/11/16 13:33:51

Modified files:
        philosophy     : words-to-avoid.html 

Log message:
        Add "Creative-Commons licensed" entry.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.192&r2=1.193

Patches:
Index: words-to-avoid.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html,v
retrieving revision 1.192
retrieving revision 1.193
diff -u -b -r1.192 -r1.193
--- words-to-avoid.html 14 Nov 2014 00:17:32 -0000      1.192
+++ words-to-avoid.html 16 Nov 2014 13:33:49 -0000      1.193
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@
 |<span class="gnun-split"></span> &ldquo;<a
        href="#Content">Content</a>&rdquo;
 |<span class="gnun-split"></span> &ldquo;<a
+       href="#Creative-Commons licensed">Creative-Commons licensed</a>&rdquo;
+|<span class="gnun-split"></span> &ldquo;<a
        href="#Creator">Creator</a>&rdquo;
 |<span class="gnun-split"></span> &ldquo;<a
        href="#DigitalGoods">Digital Goods</a>&rdquo;
@@ -363,6 +365,25 @@
 system&rdquo; (WRS).</p>
 
 
+<h4 id="Creative-Commons licensed">&ldquo;Creative-Commons licensed&rdquo;</h4>
+<p>
+The most important licensing charactistic of a work is whether it is
+free.  Creative Commons publishes seven licenses; three are free
+(CC-BY, CC-BY-SA and CC-0) and the rest are non-free.  Thus, to
+describe a work as &ldquo;Creative-Commons licensed&rdquo; fails to
+say whether it is free, and suggests that the question is not
+important.  The statement may be accurate, but its omission is
+harmful.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+To encourage people to pay attention to the most important
+distinction, always specify <em>which</em> Creative Commons license is
+used, as in &ldquo;licensed under CC-BY-SA.&rdquo; If you don't know
+which license a certain work uses, find out and then make your
+statement.
+</p>
+
 <h4 id="Creator">&ldquo;Creator&rdquo;</h4>
 <p>
 The term &ldquo;creator&rdquo; as applied to authors implicitly
@@ -979,7 +1000,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2014/11/14 00:17:32 $
+$Date: 2014/11/16 13:33:49 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>