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  • From: evan AT wikitravel.org
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Why do you have to chose the "Attribution" option with the new CC 2.0 Licenses?
  • Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:54:22 -0700

On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 09:03:07PM +0100, Rob Myers wrote:

> >I'd really like to see a source-code license element in future
> >versions of
> >the CC suite.
>
> Wellllll. I'd like to see a GPL-compatible CC license. I'd be very,
> very wary of releasing Yet Another Software License, even one done as
> well as the CC content licenses. There's too many Open Source licenses
> already, and content ain't code (tm).*

I think I was clumsy in using the word "source code". Your definition of
content source -- editable versions of works --- is a better term.

I'd like to see a license element where distributors and creators of
derivative works have to make available editable versions of works.

~ESP




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