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  • From: Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: The Beeb and CC
  • Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 16:57:04 +0100

On Tuesday, June 08, 2004, at 04:46PM, Ben Francis <lists AT hippygeek.co.uk>
wrote:

>If CC are making a concious decision NOT to make the licenses DFSG-free
>and have a good reason for doing so,

(I am not a CC person)

The CC licenses are not designed for software or (specifically for) software
documentation. DFSG is not designed for music, video or literature. I think
that possibly DFSG and CC are catering to different communities.

A quick look at the DFSG shows that they don't have the same definition of
"Free" as the FSF, which doesn't consider the original BSD or Artistic
licenses "Free". If I were to choose between the two, I'd go for the FSF's
definition. Which still wouldn't make CC-BY Free. :-)

>http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2004-5.html#cc20-example AT 2004-5.mjr.dsl.pipex.com

Yep, BY being automatic and its removal becoming optional/deferred are not
IMVVHO a good idea. Particularly when it looks like users may have
misunderstood BY/not BY so badly.

- Rob.




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