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  • From: "Mike Linksvayer" <ml AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: "Development of Creative Commons licenses" <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] DRAFT Creative Commons Statement of Intent for Attribution-ShareAlike Licenses
  • Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 21:54:19 -0700

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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