Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Evan Prodromou <evan AT wikitravel.org>]

>>>>> "GL" == Greg London <email AT greglondon.com> writes:

    >> 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.

    GL> I think it refers to any license restriction that allows the
    GL> original author to affect downstream authors after they've
    GL> gone and created a derived work and released it.

It's one of the several tests used for free licenses. The idea is that
if the copyright holder were to be bought out or subverted by some
evil organization, would they be able to revoke the rights of existing
license holders.

Frankly, I thought the analysis done on debian-legal was terribly
amateurish.

~ESP

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