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  • From: jbn AT forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: about the option to reference the license with a link to a URL
  • Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 00:44:10 -0600

Evan Prodromou wrote:
> On the other hand, it's also kind of unreasonable to assume that the
> Free Software Foundation will have the same postal address in 50
> or even 10 years -- if it exists then at all.

Not as unreasonable because the US Postal System has been around a long time
relative to URLs. Also, the USPS has been finding people's new addresses
even in cases when people don't use the USPS forwarding mechanism (which I
think the FSF would use). Internet domains and web services, however, have
no analog to this. They're young and incredibly lossy: If one loses their
domain in a dispute, there's no way to compel the new owner of the domain to
forward requests intended for you to you.




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