[cc-community] The case for a stricter (or more honest) CC licence than BY-NC-ND
Nathan Kinkade
nkinkade at creativecommons.org
Sun Jan 11 12:07:55 EST 2009
2009/1/11 Dr. Peter Troxler (Waag Society) <peter at waag.org>:
<snip>
> this is not only slightly contradictory and apart from the allowed
> electronic distribution I can see little difference to "all rights
> reserved".
>
> one could even argue, that Schiller's use of the CC mark and license
> could be misleading -- "Modified versions of our licenses, however,
> should not be labeled as 'Creative Commons' licenses." (http://creativecommons.org/policies
> )
>
>
> / Peter Troxler
Yes, this was one of the points I initially pointed out when I
responded to his original email to info at creativecommons.org.
According to what I have been told by several people, including Diane
Peters (http://creativecommons.org/about/people/#95), adding
additional terms or restrictions to a CC license is explicitly not
permitted -- section 8(d) of the license in question (BY-NC-ND).
Christoph replied saying that there was some text in section 8(d) of
the German 3.0 BY-NC-ND license that was not present in the Unported
license, which seemed to give the right to alter the terms in some
way, or something to that effect. I cannot read or speak German, so I
was unable to verify this. However, I did pose the question to CCi,
but haven't heard back yet. I somehow doubt that this fundamental
provision would be different under the German licenses.
Nathan
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