Libre Art License: Useful??
Saturday, June 18, 2022 - 11:37
I just stumbled over this license:
https://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en/
My personal opinion is: We don't need this license because there are already great Creative Commons licenses.
So what do you think?
i agree with you 100%
creative commons licenses work. there are some issues with older versions of -by that have been brought up, and some take issue with the anti-drm complications associated with by and by-sa.
personally, i don't consider cc-by-nc or -nd to be libre at all.
i have taken on the opinion that cc0 is the best, i have been only using cc0 so that i can freely distribute derivatives under the same license. i like the idea of public domain dedication. it is what i consider truly putting something into the "commons" so that it belongs to everyone without restrictions.
having a bunch of different licenses like this one just makes things more complicated for the end user. most people just want to make stuff, they are not license nerds. an artist is of course free to license their work however they choose, but my opinion is that we should just be advocating for the creative commons licenses. it is already the "standard."
I haven't fully read through the legal text yet, but my impressions from doing a "deep skim" are as follows:
Conclusion: IMHO, FAL seems like a decent copyleft license. However, it has a few disadvantages (only minor, really) over CC-BY* licenses and also no real benefits over CC-BY* licenses that I could see. I don't see any harm in using FAL assets, even alongside CC and GPL licensed assets, but I also don't see any reason to seek out FAL assets or projects specifically.
--Medicine Storm