Draft License 2.5 - Now open for discussion

Rob Myers robmyers at mac.com
Fri May 20 16:39:44 EDT 2005


On 20 May 2005, at 21:33, Evan Prodromou wrote:

> On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 10:31:58AM -0400, Greg London wrote:
>
>
>>> One concern: what about copyright notices? Won't they still need  
>>> to be
>>> preserved, with accurate attribution? If so, doesn't that defeat the
>>> goal of this change?
>>>
>>
>> notices are legally optional.
>>
>
> They're still required by the license, though.

Yes, I thought that. BY-SA-2.0 4c says:

     You must keep intact all copyright notices for the Work

But possibly if there are no copyright notices to start with (and as  
Greg points out they are optional) then you don't need to keep them  
intact. :-)

- Rob.




More information about the cc-licenses mailing list