DFSG (was Re: The Beeb and CC)
Mike Linksvayer
ml at creativecommons.org
Tue Jun 8 15:53:49 EDT 2004
Ben Francis wrote:
> Evan Prodromou wrote
>> I'll jump in on the
>> Debian side and try to get this straight, though.
>
> That would be great! I would be very interested what the official
> position is.
Thanks to Evan for following up on debian-legal, though the responses
don't shed much light. Same for his post and followups on OSI's
licenses-discuss.
> If CC are making a concious decision NOT to make the licenses DFSG-free
> and have a good reason for doing so, I'd like to hear their reason and
> would respect their decision. But if there's no good reason why they
> couldn't be DFSG-free and they simply don't know about it yet I think it
> would be worth while altering them to meet the guidelines. Perhaps
> you're right and some of the licenses already are DFSG-free. Please do
> report back your findings! I'm afraid I'm a little out of my depth for
> any more constructive discussion on the topic, I shy away from the
> complicated legal details!
Most of the CC licenses are very obviously not DFSG-free. AFAIK nobody
ever explicitly thought "let's create non-DFSG-free licenses!", rather
it was a consequence of intending to explore/exploit many points in the
copyright spectrum outside of "all rights reserved".
It would be very nice if by and by-sa were certified as free, open, or
whatever by Debian, OSI, and the FSF. There certainly isn't any
objection from CC to by and by-sa being so certified. That said, we
haven't made any postivie effort in that direction.
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