On 5/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Elizabeth Stark</b> <<a href="mailto:estark@law.harvard.edu">estark@law.harvard.edu</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>(2) We clarified that students keep the copyright to their thesis at<br>our school. We thought, why not encourage them to license their theses<br>freely? As such, our repository currently requires that uploaders<br>agree to license it CC BY, the same license used by PLoS.
</blockquote><div><br>This is the weird systematization that I'm talking about. Is there actually a <span style="font-style: italic;">choice</span> present to use anything other than "CC BY" or should everyone be sent through the same filter? It's cult-like. What about the choice of not using any licence at all?
<br><br>Matt<br></div></div><br>