[cc-licenses] Version 3.0 -- It's Happening & With BY-SA CompatibilityLanguageToo

James Grimmelmann james at grimmelmann.net
Tue Feb 13 20:44:11 EST 2007


drew Roberts wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 February 2007 07:56 pm, Jonathon Blake wrote:
>> On 2/13/07, tomislav medak wrote:
>>> first reason would be: how do you define 'free'?, or rather 'freedoms',
>>> or 'free enough' to be called that. for instance, freedom to share
>>> licensed works is given by all standard CC licenses and it is a freedom.
>> First, get rid of CC as a brand name. Keep the name for the
>> organization, if you so desire.
>>
>> Debian Legal has a set of four definitions,and three tests that can be
>> used to determine whether  or not something is "free". Anything which
>> passes all of those criteria is "free".  Call that the _Free Content
>> Licence_.
>>
>> The BY and BY-SA variants can be called the _Free Authors Licence_.
>>
>> BY-NC-ND can be relabelled as _The Usage is Banned Licence_
> 
> Not so sure this description fits. You can "use" such a book to read or as a 
> door stop... ?
> 
> A bit off topic here... Is it legal for a for profit entity to download NC 
> documents off of web sites?

Under step 1 of the draft NC guidelines, no.

James



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