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DewiMorgan Licensing, or public domain? 1 May 17 2008, 9:19 AM EDT by DewiMorgan
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"Is open source religion (OSR) necessary?" Personally, I agree that it is, nowadays, in order to be meaningful.

"Is OSR necessary?" I feel not. I feel that another prerequisite is that the religion and its works should also be in the public domain.

"But that's the same thing, right?" No. There are "open source licences" instead, all of which rely on copyright.

"What are the repercussions of copyright?" By default, and I've searched the site and not found any note to the contrary, copyright is granted whenever you create a work, and means that the distilled wisdom amassed in the pages *cannot be reproduced* without permission of all the individual authors of the articles. Nobody can print a book from it, nobody can reproduce more than a couple of paragraphs from any article, without getting the permission of its original author. Each article is a separate work and *belongs to a single person*. All that can be done with them is display them in the forum to which they were posted.

"But the project belongs to us all. We are One." Not in the eyes of the law, no.

"GNU license it then!" I beg you, avoid that path of evil. Traditional monolithic religions have contained evil "viral" clauses: parents must bring up children in the religion (Various Christianity); women of the religion may not marry men of another as they'd have no say on the children's religion (Islam)... etc. GPL is similar: you may not use text from a document in another document, without the whole document becoming licensed under the GPL.

That's viral licensing, is evil, and has no place in a good religion.

Public Domain is the path of nonevil. The Bible, the Koran, All US Government documents, etc are public domain, and can be used by anyone for any purpose without restriction or permission. THAT is how a religion's texts should be: copyright is evil.
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Kristen23 We are all one single Self 0 May 6 2008, 12:55 PM EDT by sidianmsjones
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From Alan Watts' "The Book"

Myth, then, is the form in which I try to answer when children ask me those fundamental metaphysical questions which come so readily to their minds: "Where did the world come from?" "Why did God make the world?" "Where was I before I was born?" "Where do people go when they die?" Again and again I have found that they seem to be satisfied with a simple and very ancient story, which goes something like this:

"There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch which tells the time; it goes round, and so the world repeats itself again and again. But just as the hour-hand of the watch goes up to twelve and down to six, so, too, there is day and night, waking and sleeping, living and dying, summer and winter. You can't have any one of these without the other, because you wouldn't be able to know what black is unless you had seen it side-by-side with white, or white unless side-by-side with black.

"In the same way, there are times when the world is, and times when the world isn't, for if the world went on and on without rest for ever and ever, it would get horribly tired of itself. It comes and it goes. Now you see it; now you don't. So because it doesn't get tired of itself, it always comes back again after it disappears. It's like your breath: it goes in and out, in and out, and if you try to hold it in all the time you feel terrible. It's also like the game of hide-and-seek, because it's always fun to find new ways of hiding, and to seek for someone who doesn't always hide in the same place.
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