[cc-licenses] Parallel Distribution and Non-Copyleft Licenses
Evan Prodromou
evan at prodromou.name
Wed Nov 29 19:41:17 EST 2006
On Wed, 2006-29-11 at 21:20 +0000, Rob Myers 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. Nobody loses any rights from having the clause
added, and your net freedom is greater with a parallel distribution
clause than without it.
Without PD, here are your rights w/r/t a CC-BY- or CC-BY-SA-licensed
work:
On open On DRM-required
platforms platforms
-----------------------------------------------
Freedom 0 X
Freedom 1 X
Freedom 2 X
Freedom 3 X
With PD, here are your Freedoms:
On open On DRM-required
platforms platforms
-----------------------------------------------
Freedom 0 X X
Freedom 1 X X
Freedom 2 X (depends on platform)
Freedom 3 X (depends on platform)
Net freedoms are increased, plain and simple, even in the worst case for
platforms where you can't distribute a verbatim or modified version of
the work to run on that platform.
~Evan
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Evan Prodromou <evan at prodromou.name>
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