On Monday, June 23, 2014, Joachim Baran <joachim.baran@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 22 June 2014 19:30, Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','alanruttenberg@gmail.com');>> wrote: > >> What do you have against booleans? :) >> > My points were: > > With a boolean solution -- especially when it only denotes whether > license lookup was tried -- it is not clear what information that bears. > Why would this boolean ever be set to false? Regardless of it's state, what > does it imply? It provides no further information than omitting the > explicit licensing statement (Jerven's solution) and it does not provide > extra labeling (Michel's solution). > In the case that the license is not asserted it distinguishes the case where the publisher has made an affirmative effort to determine what the license is, or not. > > >> That seems like a sort of "too many notes" comment about Mozart's work, >> if you can reach far enough to follow the analogy. >> > I actually could not reach far enough to follow the analogy. I am also > not sure whether analogies, metaphors or allegories are adequate to discuss > this matter -- or any other professional topic. > George Lakoff (an academic) has made a persuasive case so http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0226468011?pc_redir=1403417237&robot_redir=1 > > Kim >
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