Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Ricardo Gladwell <president AT freeroleplay.org>]

Greg London wrote:
> I can see how "technological measures" would disallow stuff
> like DRM and encryption (and may a patent?), but I don't
> think it is a file format qualifies as
> "a technological measures that control access or use of the Work"
> just because no other program can read it.
>
> Pete isn't preventing anyone from reading the file.
> It isn't DRM.  It's just that no one cared about Pete's program
> enough to add Pete's format to their own software.
>
> To put it another way: Obscurity is not a "control measure".
>
> You can't penalize someone and prohibit the use of a file format
> simply because it isn't popular.

This is the reason that I sincererly believe that a Transparency clause 
is important, for particularly when the above situation arises which is, 
as you indicate, not covered by the technology clause in all situations.

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