[cc-licenses] Parallel Distribution Statement

James Grimmelmann james at grimmelmann.net
Tue Nov 28 19:05:27 EST 2006


drew Roberts wrote:
>> Having just BY-SA is better than having BY-SA-Monday, BY-SA-Tuesday,
>> Son-of-BY-SA, Soylent-BY-SA, and many other incompatible flavors of
>> BY-SA (even if most of them are comparably free).  So, while I agree
>> with you that compatibility can hurt freedom under some circumstances,
>> unnecessary incompatibility generally hurts freedom.
> 
> I would not argue about that since I agree with you there., but by the same 
> token, if an artist or author dislikes the results of plain paralled 
> distribution enough to craft a custome license, that is liable to be worse 
> still.

I definitely agree with you on this.  It's unfortunate every time that 
unpalatable license choices cause dissatisfied authors who want to 
encourage free redistribution to opt out of the Creative Commons 
ecosystem entirely.

James



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