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  • From: Evan Prodromou <evan AT prodromou.name>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Parallel Distribution and Non-Copyleft Licenses
  • Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:41:17 -0500

On Wed, 2006-29-11 at 21:20 +0000, Rob Myers wrote:

> > Since the dominant argument against parallel distribution on this
> > list seems to boil down to a critique that the clause provide a way
> > to sidestep copyleft,
>
> The clause provides a way of removing people's rights.

That's simply not true. Nobody loses any rights from having the clause
added, and your net freedom is greater with a parallel distribution
clause than without it.

Without PD, here are your rights w/r/t a CC-BY- or CC-BY-SA-licensed
work:

On open On DRM-required
platforms platforms
-----------------------------------------------
Freedom 0 X
Freedom 1 X
Freedom 2 X
Freedom 3 X

With PD, here are your Freedoms:

On open On DRM-required
platforms platforms
-----------------------------------------------
Freedom 0 X X
Freedom 1 X X
Freedom 2 X (depends on platform)
Freedom 3 X (depends on platform)

Net freedoms are increased, plain and simple, even in the worst case for
platforms where you can't distribute a verbatim or modified version of
the work to run on that platform.

~Evan

--
Evan Prodromou <evan AT prodromou.name>




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