Development of Creative Commons licenses

["Glenn Otis Brown" <glenn AT creativecommons.org>]

That's right, Mike, thanks.

Like Mike says, new, clearer commons deeds are on the way shortly. That
should help clarify things.


On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:38:52 -0800, "Mike Linksvayer"
<ml AT creativecommons.org> said:
> On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 02:50:17 +0200, "Lorenzo De Tomasi"
> <lorenzo.detomasi AT libero.it> said:
> > If I read the names 'Attribution' and 'Attribution-NoDerivs', it seems to
> > me
> > that 'Attribution' permits derived copies and that 'Attribution-NoDerivs'
> > doesn't permits derived copies.
> > But if you read the description it seems that 'Attribution' doesn't
> > permit
> > derived copies ("The licensor permits others to copy, distribute,
> > display,
> > and perform the work.") -> It doesn't talk about modify/derive; so it
> > seems
> > that 'Attribution' and 'Attribution-NoDerivs' are the same license and so
> > why are they 2 and not one?
> 
> They aren't the same license.  Attribution explicitly grants rights to
> create derivative works.  See
> <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/legalcode>.  This right isn't
> called out in the commons deed
> <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/>, which may be the source of
> your confusion.  We are planning to make this clear in a commons deed
> revision.  However, the licenses themselves (the legalcode) are A-OK on
> this count, to my non-lawyerly eyes anyhow.
> --
>   Mike Linksvayer
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