Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Aaron Swartz <me AT aaronsw.com>]

Chris Croome wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, I feared that the CC share alike license might
> not be GPL-compatible :-(

It's hard to be GPL-compatible without being the GPL. I think even the 
FDL isn't GPL-compatible.

The more important question to me is whether the license is considered 
free.

> > > You may not distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or
> > > publicly digitally perform the Work with any technological
> > > measures that control access or use of the Work in a manner
> > > inconsistent with the terms of this License Agreement.
> > I'm not actually sure that that provision is consistent with it
> > being a Free Software license.

I have a hard time believing it to be the position of the FSF that such 
a provision makes the license non-free. The point of the provision is 
to prevent a CC-licensed work from being provided with technological 
restrictions (DRM/copy protection) that prevent you from doing things 
you're legally permitted to. Seeing how the GPL, for example, takes a 
hard stance against adding more restrictions legally (thru patents and 
more restrictive copyright license), I don't see how you can object to 
taking a hard stance against adding more restrictions technically.

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