Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>]

On Tuesday, June 08, 2004, at 11:16AM, Ben Francis <lists AT hippygeek.co.uk> 
wrote:

>The CC licenses have a few problems which makes them non-free under DFSG 
>terms --> http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/04/msg00031.html

And it's because of BY. :-)

The first criticism in the email can be avoided by the author waiving BY when 
they contribute.

What does "tentacles of evil" actually mean? It sounds interesting but I 
can't make out what the FAQ entry is trying to say or how it really applies 
to the CC license.

Are the restrictions on the CC trademark found in CC-BY-2.0 worse than fair 
use? It reads as if I cannot write an article on CC with the logo on the page 
as an illustration and release it under a CC license. (IANAL, ICESP*).

>Back on the subject of the BBC though, it's probably likely that the BBC 
>will have licenses which are MORE restrictive than CC rather than less.

I'd hope not, but unless Lessig has some really hypnotic PowerPoint slides I 
can imagine they'd go for the equivalent of BY-NC.

- Rob.

*- I Can't Even Spell Properly, as someone pointed out to me last time I 
tried to do acronyms. :-)