[Talk-us] Resigning in protest

[Dave Hansen]

On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 01:39 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> > Terribly thought out process.  Terrible idea in the first place.
> 
> IMHO the terrible idea was to start out with CC-BY-SA in the first 
> place; had we simply been PD all along, nobody would have made a fuss 
> and we could have saved zillions of man-hours in license working group 
> time and heated mailing list discussions.

Some very smart lawyers at very big companies in the US claim that PD
doesn't really exist, outside what would otherwise be government-held
copyright.  PD might make it worse.  Let's just blame the lawyers. :)

-- Dave