The Beeb and CC

Rob Myers robmyers at mac.com
Tue Jun 8 11:57:04 EDT 2004


On Tuesday, June 08, 2004, at 04:46PM, Ben Francis <lists at hippygeek.co.uk> wrote:

>If CC are making a concious decision NOT to make the licenses DFSG-free 
>and have a good reason for doing so, 

(I am not a CC person)

The CC licenses are not designed for software or (specifically for) software documentation. DFSG is not designed for music, video or literature. I think that possibly DFSG and CC are catering to different communities.

A quick look at the DFSG shows that they don't have the same definition of "Free" as the FSF, which doesn't consider the original BSD or Artistic licenses "Free". If I were to choose between the two, I'd go for the FSF's definition. Which still wouldn't make CC-BY Free. :-)

>http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2004-5.html#cc20-example@2004-5.mjr.dsl.pipex.com

Yep, BY being automatic and its removal becoming optional/deferred are not IMVVHO a good idea. Particularly when it looks like users may have misunderstood BY/not BY so badly.

- Rob.



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