[cc-licenses] Version 3.0 - List Discussion Responses
Rob Myers
rob at robmyers.org
Tue Sep 26 15:01:25 EDT 2006
MJ Ray wrote:
> I feel how CC decision-making works was missed by the above answer.
Representatives of the national porting teams and various other interest
groups, including a Debian-Legal cabal, reviewed the license drafts in
private. The drafts have now been made public. A first round of comments
on those drafts have been gathered and very thoroughly answered by CC,
and here we are discussing them.
The public draft review process was announced some months ago on the CC
weblog and I believe I and others publicised this in the community.
> "Because CC licenses are not drafted for software [...]"
>
> Does this mean that the CC licences will no longer be suitable for mp3s
> and other software files?
I believe that Mia is here using the word "software" to refer to
computer programs rather than to data files. CC licenses are not drafted
for source code or for binary executables. They are drafted for cultural
works, which includes works encoded in non-executable and
non-human-readable formats such as MP3.
It is worthwhile repeating that CC licenses are not intended for
computer programs ("software"). People are using NC and even ND licenses
for PHP pages and abandonware for example, and this is harmful.
> On some of the points, the lack of developers on TPM-requiring platforms
> speaking out seems to be advanced as reason to ignore the situation.
Which situation? Actual users of CC licenses are overwhelmingly against
DRM. I'm afraid that Debian Legal's arguments in favor of DRM are
fundamentally flawed, as I have argued at length on this list and elsewhere.
> Is
> it really surprising that such developers are not posting to cc-licenses?
I don't understand why DRM platform developers wouldn't be posting to
this list, which is easy to subscribe to, has public archives, and now
has attachments in publicly documented formats.
- Rob.
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