Creative Commons Attribution license element
MJ Ray
mjr at dsl.pipex.com
Tue Jun 8 19:44:14 EDT 2004
On 2004-06-08 17:06:25 +0100 Evan Prodromou <evan at debian.org> wrote:
> a number of mix-and-match license elements (Attribution, ShareAlike,
> NonCommercial, NoDerivatives). So any CC license that would require
> Attribution would also fall under this analysis.
Do any SA/NC/ND licences not include attribution?
> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/attribution.php
> This is not, of course, canonical for Debian, but it does provide some
> suggestion that a group following guidelines similar to ours don't see
> a serious problem with requiring attribution.
I don't think OSI follows similar guidelines. Notably, Debian does not
require contributors to its process to use non-free software, defaults
to "no consensus" (sometimes annoyingly so) and only produces licence
summaries if driven.
Even so, I'd be amazed that OSI approved a licence that includes
advertising in the licence and requires a program to do a particular
act, were I not already convinced that OSI has gone bad. The
Initiative Failed a long time ago, it seems. In the words of USPTO:
Opensource is Dead.
> [...] Apache 2.0 also requires attribution (in the NOTICE file).
I still think that licence looks like it has be considered
case-by-case, as there is scope to abuse it.
> 3) As for the trademark clause [...] If A grants B the
> rights outlined in Attribution 1.0, no increase in trademark
> restrictions by the third-party Creative Commons could revoke those
> rights.
Can you explain this more? How is it compliance with the licence not
to obtain "prior written consent of Creative Commons" before using
their trademark in a normally-permitted manner that is not "in
compliance with Creative Commons' then-current trademark usage
guidelines" ?
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