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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: ShareAlike 2.0
  • Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 23:46:15 +0100

On 25 May 2004, at 22:08, Evan Prodromou wrote:

I was very pleased to see that ShareAlike seems to have been
reasonably preserved.

My knee-jerk initial reaction:

more complex, no representation, lots of music, no relicensing when deriving (yay!), more robust.

My more reflective reaction (from my weblog):

[The licenses] cover music and combining works much better than the 1.0 license, but miss the crucial "representation of authority to contribute" clause that makes people think about whether they really are allowed to release Star Wars as Open Content. This was too strict in the original license, but is present in a milder form in several other licenses, and should have been kept in a watered-down form IMHO.

If you are making music or want a good license that allows the kind of cross-media explosion that Lawrence Lessig's "Free Culture" has seen, this is the license for you. If you are concerned about preventing the SCOs of this world attacking Free Culture, the Free Software Foundation's procedures for handling contributions may provide a good model.

Congratulations to the CC team for getting these licenses out and for robustly enabling cross-media Free Culture.

- Rob.




  • ShareAlike 2.0, Evan Prodromou, 05/25/2004
    • Re: ShareAlike 2.0, Rob Myers, 05/25/2004

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