[Cc-ca] Creative Commons 2.0 license suite (Comparison with Debian Free Software guidelines, AKA: Open Source).

Russell McOrmond russell at flora.ca
Thu Jul 22 20:37:26 EDT 2004


  I can't say I agree with all of this analysis which seems a bit
superficial at places (read the claim about the "Anti-DRM clause" as an
example), but it makes for a very interesting read.

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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 19:54:40 -0400
From: Evan Prodromou <evan at wikitravel.org>
To: license-discuss at opensource.org
Subject: Creative Commons 2.0 license suite

So, I just wrote up a draft summary of the Creative Commons 2.0 licenses for 
debian-legal.

	http://people.debian.org/~evan/ccsummary

The bottom line: 4 of the 6 licenses are clearly not intended to be compatible 
with the DFSG.

The two licenses that seem to be aimed at DFSG-freedom (Attribution and 
Attribution-ShareAlike) have some minor vagueness that are making it difficult 
for Debian to use them.

Anyways, I thought people on this list might be interested. Comments or 
criticisms welcome.

~ESP


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