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  • From: "selussos" <mgr AT x-oz.com>
  • To: "Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts" <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>, "Mike Linksvayer" <ml AT creativecommons.org>
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  • Subject: Re: software licenses
  • Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 07:34:58 -0500


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Linksvayer" <ml AT creativecommons.org>
To: "selussos" <mgr AT x-oz.com>
Cc: "Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts"
<cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 2:41 AM
Subject: Re: software licenses


> selussos wrote:
> > Unfortunately we cannot do GPL but must offer something in the MIT/X/BSD
> > variation see: http://www.x-oz.com/licenses.html, which is why I thought
> > the link to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/ would be good.
> > Will you be doing something like that in the near future? If so I could
> > just
> > wait and link then if you think that would be clearer.
>
> I don't see a link to CC there, but it wouldn't make much sense, as you
> aren't actually using the license you propose to link to.

How do you mean?
>
> > As you can I am looking for _clarity_ since we've been getting so many
> > questions on our rather simple license. Thanks for your quick response.
>
> Well, that's what you get for creating your own license. :-)

Seems so. I had no idea that that was going to cause such an uproar.

>
> You could create a commons deed-like summary. Whether that would help
> depends upon the nature of the questions you're getting.

Okay, what's that?

Best Regards
Sue






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