Development of Creative Commons licenses

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

Mike Linksvayer wrote:

> Most of the CC licenses are very obviously not DFSG-free.  AFAIK 
> nobody ever explicitly thought "let's create non-DFSG-free licenses!", 
> rather it was a consequence of intending to explore/exploit many 
> points in the copyright spectrum outside of "all rights reserved".
>
> It would be very nice if by and by-sa were certified as free, open, or 
> whatever by Debian, OSI, and the FSF.  There certainly isn't any 
> objection from CC to by and by-sa being so certified.  That said, we 
> haven't made any postivie effort in that direction.
Perhaps something to think about for CC 3.0 then? I think it's a great 
idea. The Debian Legal people and Creative Commons may be doing 
different things, but it appears that they're very much on the same side 
as it were. Where there are common goals ideas can be pooled and if that 
means making CC DFSG-free then that's great.

tola ^/.

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