Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Ben Francis <lists AT hippygeek.co.uk>]

Evan Prodromou wrote

> I'll jump in on the
> Debian side and try to get this straight, though.
>  
That would be great! I would be very interested what the official 
position is. My view of Creative Commons was slightly tainted when I 
read that email and a couple of blog entries on the topic by a friend.

If CC are making a concious decision NOT to make the licenses DFSG-free 
and have a good reason for doing so, I'd like to hear their reason and 
would respect their decision. But if there's no good reason why they 
couldn't be DFSG-free and they simply don't know about it yet I think it 
would be worth while altering them to meet the guidelines. Perhaps 
you're right and some of the licenses already are DFSG-free. Please do 
report back your findings! I'm afraid I'm a little out of my depth for 
any more constructive discussion on the topic, I shy away from the 
complicated legal details!

If you're interested in the blog entries I'm talking about:

A problem with the CC2.0 licenses at the end of 4a (Restrictions):
   
http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2004-5.html#cc2nonfree AT 2004-5.mjr.dsl.pipex.com
An example of why this is a problem:
   
http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2004-5.html#cc20-example AT 2004-5.mjr.dsl.pipex.com

Best Regards

tola ^/.

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