Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Thomas Uwe Gruettmueller <sloyment AT gmx.net>]

Hi Dierk,                                       (IANAL TINLA)

On Mittwoch 12 November 2003 00:07, Dierk Ohlerich wrote:
> We want to distrubute executables without source

> the "require attribution", "no commercial use", "share alike
> modification" would suit us.

This means that you will allow modification on a legal basis, but 
at the same time almost completely prevent it on a technical 
basis.

> If someone somehow gets access to the source-code (which might
> have no copyright notice), he should not automatically get
> rights to the sources.

Your original source code will not be affected, but somebody 
might create new "source code" from the binary, by decompiling 
or disassembling it.

The licensing scheme is incompatible with the GPL.

(Please note that I am not part of the CC project, so this is not 
an official answer.)

cu,
Thomas }:o{#
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