* Ali Reza Hayati <arh@gnu.org> [2021-04-09 21:20]:
Hello guys.
Can anybody help me with choosing a license for a blog other than Creative
Commons? I want to use GNU FDL 1.3 but I'm not sure if that's fine for
audio/video too. Can we use GFDL for audio and video too? If not, what
copyleft license do you suggest to use, other than Creative Commons
ones?
Choosing a general license for one whole blog is not best idea, as you
may host on your blog diverse pieces and types of text and media, each
of them being licensed differently.
- software, each software may have some different license, even if
software is as a listing there.
- instructions, such could be published under the GFDL, as people may
be free to adopt, modify it; be it text, video, media, or
presentation;
- you could host images, or media with different licenses, so you have
to consider those, for each thing specific license; you may even
post copyrighted images, as there are various liberties, for example
for purposes of commenting, scientific purposes, educational
purposes, etc.
- you can host opinions, so if it is about opinions, then you could
use something like following:
Verbatim Copying and Distribution
Copyright © 2021 by AUTHOR.
Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are permitted
worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided the copyright
notice, the document’s official hyperlink and this permission notice
are preserved. It is not required to retain page headings and footers
or other formatting features. Retention of weblinks in both
hyperlinked and non-hyperlinked media (as notes or some other form of
printed URL in non-HTML media) is required.
Or for opinions, you would use: Creative Commons
Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License as on:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/ and see example here:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html
This is because opinions should not be modified, and you should
protect yourself.
Imagine following short statement, expanded into whole article:
"Ali Reza has opinion that we shall build free culture."
Now comes the website visitor, sees the GFDL, and thus modifies the
article to the meaning of:
"Ali Reza proposes proprietary software on all home and office
desktops."
That would make no sense. Opinions are personal and shall be respected as
such.
Jean
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