Enjoy.
-- Art
OK then Art -let's contextualise this.
You have two Open Source cows.
You can endlessly replicate them (no sexual reproduction) and adapt the replicas but you are not allowed to sell any of the replicas or adaptations. However you can make money from housing the replica cows in a barn (called hosting) or train the cow handlers, or do cow style sheets. But you are only allowed to advertise cow hosting or cow handler training if you are a registered cow partner.
You may be able to obtain business or public funding for your cow adaptation, and feel part of a 'cow community' see Cowparade.
You have two Open Source cows.
You can endlessly replicate them (no sexual reproduction) and adapt the replicas but you are not allowed to sell any of the replicas or adaptations. However you can make money from housing the replica cows in a barn (called hosting) or train the cow handlers, or do cow style sheets. But you are only allowed to advertise cow hosting or cow handler training if you are a registered cow partner.
You may be able to obtain business or public funding for your cow adaptation, and feel part of a 'cow community' see Cowparade.
That's udderly ridiculous (and I should know, I was born in Wisconsin.)
(Edited by Frances Bell - original submission Friday, 9 March 2007, 09:51 AM)
I just removed the stray characters from the subject line that I had accidentally inserted
(Edited by Frances Bell - original submission Friday, 9 March 2007, 03:23 PM)
Frances- Cow Parade! I've been accused by friends of having the zeal (and cachet?) of a train spotter when it comes to Cow Parades (chanced upon one in Luxembourg yonks ago when visiting parents, did Manchester where I live and Edinburgh last year). In Manchester Sacred Cow sold for over £11,000 at auction. Sadly I couldn't afford a cow but I have got Percy Penguin made by the same artist, Mark Kennedy,whose studio is opposite where I work. Percy cost the equivalent of a new boot I decided, and what use would one new boot be?
Nice!
But... Isn't this the Free Software (GPL) version?
We definitely should have a Creative Commons version. As a comic strip!
Shouldn't be too hard, right? With words like "sampling" and "mashup," something can be done?
"You create two cows. Somebody else wants to sample these two cows in a mashup criticising the federal administration. You allow that person to record the sounds of your two cows mooing as long as you get credit for your work."
Something of that sort.
Or, how about an artistic license (Perl). "You have two cows.'You' is you, if you're thinking about cows."
But... Isn't this the Free Software (GPL) version?
We definitely should have a Creative Commons version. As a comic strip!
Shouldn't be too hard, right? With words like "sampling" and "mashup," something can be done?
"You create two cows. Somebody else wants to sample these two cows in a mashup criticising the federal administration. You allow that person to record the sounds of your two cows mooing as long as you get credit for your work."
Something of that sort.
Or, how about an artistic license (Perl). "You have two cows.'You' is you, if you're thinking about cows."
Very good. 
Thy this link -
http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-10532-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=30614&messageID=568361&start=-45
-- Art
Thy this link -
http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-10532-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=30614&messageID=568361&start=-45
-- Art