On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 10:51 +0000, Steve wrote:
On Thu 15/01/09 4:00 PM , Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org sent:
On Thursday 15 Jan 2009 3:29:58 pm Praveen A wrote:
2009/1/14 Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon@au-k
bc.org>:> > and the relevance to this list?
First time a major broadcaster is making
available its works under a> Free license enabling every one to copy, remix, and distribute. using linux? FOSS? Opensource?
As far as I can tell, they aren't really using opensource tech. - their 'high-res' video content is downloadable in mpeg format and the online streaming version uses a flash streaming embed from blip.tv (although blip.tv now supports Ogg Theora, they are not using it). Even though I find this Al-Jazeera / CC news fascinating since we run a completely FOSS video archive of our own, I honestly don't see what this bit of news has to do with Linux / FOSS.
I find it remarkable that this list can discuss to no end the merits of using a license for mailing list posts but question the relevance of this post !
Um, wouldn't discussing the license of the mailing list be relevant to the mailing list?
Is it not only relevant but also remarkable that media (journalistic media, nonetheless !!) is being released using the CC license ?
I find it remarkable, yes, but there are lots of things in the world that are remarkable - I don't see how its relevant (to this list). I honestly don't agree that the CC license has anything to do really with FOSS or Linux. I think cc-licensing of media is very different from GPL / FOSS licensing of software. You can draw analogies, but analogies can be drawn to lots of things, and I'm not sure they all belong in this mailing list.
I mean in light of the whole bunkum talk of licenses for mailing list posts and attribution of some comments printed in some not-all-that-great-in-the-first-place magazine, isn't this post at least a bit relevant ?!
Well, just because there might have been some (in your opinion) off-topic, perhaps mindless chatter, on the list, doesn't make it a dumping ground for any bit of 'interesting' news that doesn't really have anything to do with the list ..
Anyways - thanks for the link, Praveen - I do find the news fascinating and think it could fundamentally change television journalism, but I still don't see what that has to do with FOSS or Linux :)
Hope that ends the thread, though flames are welcome. -Sanjay B (http://pad.ma)
gah !
- steve
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