Why do you have to chose the "Attribution" option with the new CC 2.0 Licenses?

Gottfried Hofmann toddd at mypse.goracer.de
Sun Aug 15 05:21:18 EDT 2004


Hello,

I know only 4% chosed not to use the "Attribution" option, but is that 
really a reason to remove this possibility?

In my opinion, freedom is also freedom of choise. So a license that aims 
to be "free" should also give the authors the possibility to customize 
it towards freedom and not force them to chose restrictions they may not 
want even though the number of authors not chosing this restriction is 
rather low.

Currently, I'll stick to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sa/1.0/ :-)

There also seems to be another problem with the current attribution terms:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/07/msg01193.html

-Toddd




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