[cc-licenses] CC:BY ... lost in translation?

Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts cc-licenses at lists.ibiblio.org
Wed Nov 15 10:01:10 EST 2006


Terry wrote:

> FWIW, this already seems too detailed for the deed, to me.

It makes the Deed much clearer.

> "1. The act of attributing or ascribing, as a quality, character, or
> function, to a thing or person, an effect to a cause." (GCIDE)
> which, by itself, rules out such bizarre requirements, IMHO.

You might think that that is bizarre, but I've seen attribution 
requirements that would make Evan's "edge case" appear to be very 
reasonable.

> AFAICT, "in the manner specified" is going to be limited by common sense

"Common Sense" is a hypothetical construct.

xan

jonathon



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