[cc-licenses] Parallel Distribution and Non-Copyleft Licenses
Evan Prodromou
evan at prodromou.name
Fri Dec 1 11:58:35 EST 2006
On Fri, 2006-01-12 at 12:37 +0000, rob at robmyers.org wrote:
> >> > Since the dominant argument against parallel distribution on this
> >> > list seems to boil down to a critique that the clause provide a way
> >> > to sidestep copyleft,
> >>
> >> The clause provides a way of removing people's rights.
> >
> > That's simply not true.
>
> Your own diagram shows the rights that DRM removes.
Perhaps you didn't understand the diagram. It showed the situation now,
without a parallel distribution clause, and the situation if there were
a parallel distribution clause. If there is parallel distribution, more
net rights.
I agree that in a world without DRM there would be more that people can
do. That wasn't my point, though.
~Evan
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Evan Prodromou <evan at prodromou.name>
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