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  • From: Ricardo Gladwell <president AT freeroleplay.org>
  • To: cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org, info AT creativecommons.org
  • Cc: Free Roleplaying Community <freeroleplay AT freelists.org>
  • Subject: Does CC-SA require a modifiable copy?
  • Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 15:12:33 +0000

To Whom It May Concern,

I'm writing on behalf of the Free Roleplaying Community, an organisation dedicated to free content advocacy in the pen-and-paper roleplaying industry. We're currently reviewing the CCPL to acertain whether it is "free" as we define it:

http://www.freeroleplay.org/faq.php#FreeContent

The BA-SA CCPL allows a user "to create and reproduce Derivative Works". I also note in section 4 ("Restrictions") the following requirement is made:

"You may not distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly digitally perform the Work with any technological measures that control access or use of the Work in a manner inconsistent with the terms of this License Agreement."

I'm interested in what types of "technological measures" this covers. For example, would it be illegal to distribute the work in a proprietary format that would, for example, require expensive software to edit? Does the CCPL itself in anyway require a modifiable version be made available, similar to the source code clause in the GPL?

Kind regards...

--
Ricardo Gladwell
President, Free Roleplaying Community
http://www.freeroleplay.org/
president AT freeroleplay.org




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