[cc-community] Reducing The Number Of Licenses

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Fri Mar 6 04:50:43 EST 2009


> 	ND has no justification.  We should eliminated ND.  Indeed we can  
> reduce the number of licenses to just 3:

ND is very much neccessary because there are many many works where

- the author does not wish the work distorted to represent a different
  viewpoint
	(This is one of the big concerns of the UK government for example)
- it represents a specific record whose modification may mislead later
  (eg a photographic record of an event, or minutes of a meeting)
- there may be legal or regulatory constraints on modification
	- games for sale in some countries (age rating)
	- video for sale in many countries (age rating)
	- wireless device firmware (regulatory requirements)
	- safety data sheets

and of course if you talk to many creative authors they see some of their
output as a complete piece of expression and want to share it but not
have people messing with their created space so need +ND (or CC+ and
'translations permitted')



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