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  • From: Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: CC-GPL (By:) Missing
  • Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 21:58:48 +0100

On 1 Apr 2004, at 19:50, Greg London wrote:

in other words, you don't have to put all the copyright
notices on a "splash screen" that first comes up when
you run a program. Nor do you have to list them when
you click on the "Help" -> "about" menu, which for most
programs lists the version of the program and a copyright
notice.

No, and that was the problem the FSF had with the v1 BSD license:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html

The problem with Open Content as currently conceived is there isn't really anywhere else for the copyright/license to go. There's no source code or score, just the MP3 or weblog itself.

- Rob.





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