[cc-licenses] CC:BY ... lost in translation?
Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts
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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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