Re: Fwd: Software Freedom Day

[Paul Cutler <pcutler gnome org>]

On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 14:44 -0700, Sandy Armstrong wrote:
> >>       * Make data and works of authorship available to their
> service’s
> >>         users under legal terms and in formats that enable the
> users
> >>         to move and use their data outside of the service. This
> means:
> >>               * Users should control their private data.
> >>               * Data available to all users of the service should
> be
> >>                 available under terms approved for Free Cultural
> >>                 Works or Open Knowledge.
> >>
> >
> > Yes and No.  The user controls their private data - they are his or
> her
> > notes.  The user can set if they're public or not.  However, the
> second
> > bullet - just because a note is public doesn't mean that it's
> > automatically under a CC license, for example.  Maybe we can add a
> > feature to add a copyright / copyleft assignment to notes similar to
> > Flickr.  I don't know - not sure if I'm reading this right or if
> it's
> > applicable.
> 
> Again, since we're not a social networking site, we don't have much
> "data available to all users".  Forcing users to license their public
> notes as CC probably wouldn't go over well, but giving the option is a
> good idea.  We should file a bug for that.
> 
> Sandy 

Bug filed:  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=629580

Paul