On 10/07/2009 04:11 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
Also, I think you should keep in mind that Red Hat's Creative team
produces these videos. If we were to make videos as part of the
Fedora Marketing team or some other Fedora entity, I would absolutely
want those videos to reflect the licensing we use elsewhere.
NoDerivatives (ND) is a fundamentally sensible license for videos
produced *by a commercial entity*, where there's an interest in
preserving the original intent, message, and brand value of the
content. In Fedora, on the other hand, we provide resources that
anyone can remix for any purpose, trademarks aside. What Gianluca was
asking for, the ability to spread this video to other locales, we
could provide through translations as I suggested.
While I agree about this particular video, which is primarily about
branding and directed at Red Hat customers, it seems the Red Hat
Creative team defaults to CC-BY-NC-ND for everything, even in cases when
such a restrictions does not bring any additional benefit, like in
http://www.redhat.com/videos/fudcon11.html
Also, I hope at some point they will start delivering the content in
Free formats by default, with a nice and easy fallback option for the
customers with inadequate browsers (it's so easy that I can't see a
reason for not doing it):
http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2009/02/fallback-options-for-html5-video.html
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