On March 16, 2019 12:58:46 AM UTC, Keith Z-G <keithzg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Several lawyers came together, in GitHub private repos
And indeed there seems to be no public record of this drafting
process, at least not one that I could find. This seems diametrically
opposed to much of the philosophy underpinning copyleft-next and its
development, expressed in part as the Harvey Birdman Rule:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/richardfontana/hbr/master/HBR.md
Actually this surprised me too.
AFAIK these lawyers are all from the US and the HBR is an evident byproduct of US culture:
nowhere else people would forbid private reflection on a topic simply because we all know
that such rule is:
- impossible to enforce (but I guess these days Google, Facebook and WeeChat are all doing
their best to setup a way :-D)
- easy to freely workaround (till Google, Facebook and WeeChat succeed).
The HBR is just a form of intellectual surveillance that pretend to produce trasparency.
In practice,
- it gives power to the best influencers, instead of the best arguments (who are the best
influencers these days)
- it blur the responsibility of their decisions that are described as collective
At least, if I write a license (or anything else) and propose it for public discussion, I
put my name and credibility at stake. I take risks and fully accept the responsibility and
the feedbacks.
Public collective drafting is just a process to preserve large group interests without
putting their lobbists on the front line.
Giacomo