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  • From: Adrian Midgley <dr.midgley AT homefieldsurgery.nhs.uk>
  • To: Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>
  • Cc: cc-uk <cc-uk AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Cc-uk] Proposed 'CC in the UK' website
  • Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:18:39 +0100

Rob Myers wrote:

the CC licence, while paying lip service to its "inspiration". This adds the
substantial overhead of understanding what the differences are, why, and
whether they are tolerable.

They seem also to have felt it necessary to create their own derivative of

This is the "everyone must have their own license" antipattern that is causing so much trouble in the Open Source Software world at the moment. The BBC could also be seen as being guilty of this.

The reaction is already visible.
Some of these orgs will be correct, I don't recall seeing a variant of the CC licence that requires providing a file copy for information to the previous author of a work that is modified (I may just have missed it of course).
If they do identify a clear lack, then a new variant should arise as a result.







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