Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Matt Scheuerman <mordecaidesign AT gmail.com>]

I apologize, I am not a long time user of the Creative Commons license
so if you could please not abbreviate CC-BY and CC-SA and BY it would
be much appreciated.


On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:41:57 -0400 (EDT), Greg London
<email AT greglondon.com> wrote:
> I think attribution should be viewed by its original name of "advertising
> clause". If you're using CC-BY for something, it should be for free
> advertising, not for any sort of gift-economy type project.
> 
> As free advertising, if the URL goes out of date, that likely means that the
> business folded or some other event, in which case, attribution served its
> purpose for the duration of the business. And I believe that CC-BY says that
> if the URL is dead, the attribution requirement can be removed.
> 
> If you have a long-term gift-economy project, you should use CC-SA, include
> all your files in a tarball, and not rely on BY to point to the latest and
> best version of files. You might use BY at the start to advertise the 
> project,
> but you shouldn't rely on it as the main distribution means.
> 
> my 2c.
> 
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