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  • From: "Kasper Hviid" <kasper_hviid AT hotmail.com>
  • To: <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Does people have to share the "source code"?
  • Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 22:50:19 +0200

In Open Source, people have to share the source code along with the program.
 
Does the same apply to the CC-license?
 
I have made a 60 page manual about painting with Photoshop. Lets say I throw a CC-license on it.
A smart guy downloads the manual write four new chapters, clears up the language, print the manual and sell it. But if he dont share the source code - the *.doc version of the manual - people wont be able to share or change the manual, unless they scan every single page.
 
By the way, I really appreciate the human-readable version of the CC-license. Many other open licenses has the flaw that their wierd legal code will scare everybody away, except people in the Open Source world.
 
 - Kasper Hviid



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