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We do want to stop that sort of thing - it could be a real mess as these artefacts may propagate very quickly.
Sam
What "sort of thing" in that long paragraph do you want to stop? //Erik Sundvall
- Erik raised the question of whether, even with a clearly stated waiver version of the licence, companies might feel nervous about writing software that contained CC-BY-SA archetypes or was based on archetypes, for fear of it infecting their code.
This is a concern we have to balance with that of commercialisation of archetypes.
Sam
I don't think you want to stop "commercialisation of archetypes" just the percieved risk of somebody "locking up design space" am I right? ("Locking of design space" is very hard to do using copyright, but in some cases possible with patents. I think we agree that an archetypes would be very hard to get a solid patent on though...). //Erik Sundvall
There are legal unknowns here, but I think our conclusions are similar:
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