[cc-licenses] Lawsuit over Virgin Mobile's and Ethical Use

rob at robmyers.org rob at robmyers.org
Mon Oct 1 07:48:27 EDT 2007


Quoting drew Roberts <zotz at 100jamz.com>:
> On Sunday 30 September 2007 10:44 pm, paola.dimaio at gmail.com wrote:
>> > in the sense that it would place your "customized" licence outside the CC
>> > system, i.e. it would render it impossible to interact with the SA
>> > licences. - most legal problems CC licences have relate to the
>> > interpretation of terms such as "non-commercial" which are not used by
>> > national Copyright Laws.
>>
>> Not necessarily. If the change is straighforrwad and just adding a
>> condition it does not change any part of the agreeent itself. i say
>> that the change that I propose will not affect the compatibility
>
> It will certainly affect the compatibility of all SA licensed works.

It would break compatibility.

As has already been mentioned, the licenses state that they are the  
entire agreement. We cannot add extra conditions. We can state how we  
expect the agreement to be interpreted, but we cannot bolt on extra  
restrictions.

- Rob.





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