[cc-licenses] DRAFT Creative Commons Statement of Intent for Attribution-ShareAlike Licenses

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Mon Apr 7 00:54:19 EDT 2008


On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 5:41 AM, drew Roberts <zotz at 100jamz.com> wrote:
>  Beautiful and thanks Mike and others involved so far.

Thanks. ;)

>  The freedom to redistribute copies
>  The freedom to distribute derivative works
>
>  Should this be:
>
>  The freedom to redistribute copies including modified copies
>  The freedom to distribute derivative works
>
>  or:
>
>  The freedom to redistribute copies
>  The freedom to distribute derivative works or modified copies
>
>  Probably the first and just to be clear that you can distribute with changes
>  even where those changes are not extensive enough to constitute a new work...

I thought I copied directly from freedomdefined.org, but I guess not.
I updated the four freedoms with the exact text currently used by
fd.o.

>  2) All versions and ports of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licenses
>  MUST protect the freedom of all users by requiring that when an adaptation of
>  a work distributed under an Attribution-ShareAlike license is distributed,
>  the adaptation must be distributed under the same license, or a license
>  deemed by Creative Commons to grant and protect the same essential freedoms
>  for all users in a compatible fashion (to be clear, such a compatible license
>  must also satisfy the definition of a Free Cultural License set out in the
>  Definition of Free Cultural Works AND ALSO HAVE COPYLEFT PROVISIONS).
>
>  Also add the "AND ALSO HAVE COPYLEFT PROVISIONS" to 4.

That's what "protect the same essential freedoms for all users" means.

Mike


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