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Re: Can't find the right license

From: Evan Prodromou <evan AT bad.dynu.ca>
To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: Can't find the right license
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:00:55 -0400

On Fri, 2004-29-10 at 00:21 +0200, Gottfried Hofmann 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.

Full ack. For some reason, the gift economy is excluded from CC :-/

You know, I'm plenty happy to criticize the CC licenses, but that's just stupid. There are some problems with the licenses, I know, and the NonCommercial and NoDerivatives stuff coddles cowardly toe-dippers, but I think the Attribution and Attribution-ShareAlike licenses are as close to Free as any content licenses out there.

I'd be interested to hear why you think that Attribution is a jackboot on the neck of Freedom.

~ESP

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