Petition for Relicensing http://learn.perl.org/ and other Perl Sites Under a Less Restrictive Licence

Dear Karen,

I am hereby asking you to consider relicensing the content of
http://learn.perl.org/ and other perl.org sites, which is currently under
the restrictive Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial NonDerivatives
licence ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ ) under a le=
ss
restrictive licence, to allow for maximum reuse, redistribution and building
upon, which in turn will help promote the Perl 5 and Perl 6 programming
language and ecosystem.=20

I do not know what the reasons were for choosing CC-by-nc-nd out of all
the Creative Commons licences, but it is prohibitive for reusing the conten=
t of
the Perl sites. As an anecdote, I was told that the Israeli government rele=
ases
its photos under a very restrictive (All Rights Reserved) licence, because =
they
are afraid people will misuse them. And guess what? People don't misuse the=
m,
but they don't use them either. On the other hand, Al Jazeera releases its
photos under CC-by and as a result they are featured all over the Internet =
and
beyond, which really contributes to anti-Israeli advocacy.=20

If the distinguished members of the [email protected] mailing list (CCed to
this message) agree with this, I am asking them to at least reply with a "+=
1".
If they disagree, please say so.

(I've made a similar request in a previous context, but it was as part of a
larger request.).

There are some very large sites that are under CC-by or CC-by-sa and they o=
nly
seem to benefit from it:

* http://www.wikimedia.org/

* http://www.wikia.com/

* http://stackoverflow.com/ | http://stackexchange.com/

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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