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  • From: Francesco Poli <invernomuto AT paranoici.org>
  • To: cc-licenses <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [cc-licenses] TPM: please (explicitly) allow parallel distribution
  • Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 17:13:00 -0000

Hello again,
Section 2(a)(4) of CC-by-sa-v4.0draft3 states:

[...]
> 4. No additional or different terms; no sublicensing. Every
> recipient of the Licensed Material or Adapted Material
> automatically receives an offer from the Licensor to exercise
> the Licensed Rights under the terms and conditions of this
> Public License. You may not offer or impose any additional or
> different terms or conditions on, or apply any effective
> technological measures to, the Licensed Material or Adapted
> Material that prevent any such recipient from exercising the
> Licensed Rights.
[...]

The last part is the infamous anti-DRM (or anti-TPM, if you prefer)
clause, probably the most controversial part of CC-v3.0 licenses.
Unfortunately, it does not seem to have changed significantly,
apart from the (good) addition of a permission to circumvent
in Section 2(a)(3).

An identical clause is included in the draft3 of CC-by-v4.0.

Once again, I strongly recommend that this clause be enhanced, so that
it *explicitly* allows parallel distribution.

See my previous message [1] about the same issue in draft2.

[1] https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/cc-licenses/2012-August/007108.html

I hope parallel distribution may be allowed in the next draft.


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