Creative Commons and all that
14 March 2021/cpj

I read a flight log a while back, by sloum, in which he was discussing a 
perspective that Creative Commons licences, CC-BY-NC-SA (attribution, 
non-commercial, and share alike) wasn't as free as CC-BY-SA.

=> gopher://circumlunar.space/0/~sloum/phlog/20210218-10.txt

I've been thinking a lot about this. (And reading far more RMS than I would 
like.)

Full disclosure, I used to be a software developer. (In the sense that I 
made my living crafting and selling custom software -- mostly database 
management and remote monitoring systems.) And while I am a proponent of 
Free (Libre) software, and nowadays release all of my source code, somewhat 
reflexively, I admit to some consternation at the thought of someone taking 
my code, which I have released for the good of all, and commercializing it.

Now, logically, in a de minimis situation, does it really matter if someone 
takes a portion (or all) of my code, or my writings, and publishes for 
profit? In theory, according to the CC-SA (share alike) doctrine, I could 
turn around, take their entire corpus, market, and sell it myself provided I 
too abided by CC-SA. But where does *that* end? Are we talking revenge-code, 
at this point?

Is my capacity to not self-injure protected by CC-SA, in that CC-NC is 
redundant? In my day job, I have only an undisputed right to attribution, 
which is fine, because my day job includes compensation for my creative 
contributions. In the CC world, particularly on the smol internet, do I 
suffer reputational damage when my code or my thoughts are absconded with, 
even if, or provided that, they are wrapped in a CC-SA buffer? Is this truly 
damnum absque injuria?

In other news...
I've set up cron to auto-post gemini flight logs, and where the log is 
uniquely date-coded, copy to gopher. If the log ID is alpha-numeric (date + 
qualifier), it stays in gemini.

On verra bien.